Oh, Coach Troy... you funny, funny man.
I was planning to do Spinervals 1.0 today, but I haven't finished updating my library and so I swapped Tuesday's bike with today's and did 4.0 instead. I was just talking to my training buddy about 4 second acceleration intervals... they still hurt. Bad.
What was really lame is the first set of 4s/4s (five minutes!) I had started in the gearing he recommends (big ring/15) and was dying after three accels, so I dropped the gear to big/17... or so I thought. Had I been using the logical part of my brain instead of the animal part that was just responding blindly to Coach Troy yelling "GO!"... "STOP!"... "GO!", I might have noticed my error. When I dropped my gearing down one cog during a 4 second soft pedal, what I actually did was go from big/15 to small/15. The worst part? It was still REALLY hard. Yikes.
Anyway, I stuck to the gearing that he requested for much of the remainder of the "journey" and put out an effort I can be proud of. I forgot how much these workouts can hurt. Especially the 4s/4s sections and the 2 minutes steady effort in killer gearing sections and the super spin sections and ... oh, did I mention the isometric squats? Yeah. Those.
I know I finished strong and gave it what I had because when he told us to finish with three 20-second sprint efforts and I did the first one in sm/15 and the second in big/17 and stared down the cadence monitor and kept myself pumping even when it was nearly impossible *deep breath* and then he put us in big/12 and I blasted out twenty seconds at 80 rpm and pretty much cried afterward... I just knew I had given it a strong finish. So, go me.
Woot.
No comments:
Post a Comment