Another relatively easy workout was on the schedule for Wednesday. It was essentially supposed to be a brief 5 minute warm up and cool down of easy spinning and then twice through 15 minutes of zone 2 criss cross, 15 minutes of zone 3 (high cadence) and 15 minutes of zone 4 (high cadence).
I got some incredibly sad and frustrating news about the health of a friend during the morning on Wednesday and I had been intending to ride on my bike trainer in the living room after work to hit the target heart rate zones, but instead when I got home, I changed and decided to ride outside and get some fresh air.
Riding on the Lakeshore Path after 5pm on a weekday in the summer is truly maddening, even for the casual cyclist. Riding anywhere between Irving Park and Ohio Street is a total cluster. People have no respect for the center yellow line and no sense of space. Runners run 3-4 deep, walkers swing bags over their shoulders into the moving lane and people stop and turn- into traffic- with abandon! So I rode in zone 2 until I hit that area and then just took it easy, weaving in between all the people, bikes and errant volleyballs from Chicago Sport and Social games.
When I got to Ohio Street, rather than fight the bridge traffic, I looped back around to head north. I was a few minutes shy of half way. At the beach, I saw many women from my team in their wet suits at the beach obviously practicing open water swim. I have to admit that I was slightly miffed that my coach didn't note that in my training plan, but c'est la vie. I let it roll off my bike- not jealous of the seasickness I experience while swimming out there with the boats! There were about 50 people out there, most with groups, likely training groups together.
I need to try and get out there one of these mornings... maybe park my car down there, swim outside for an hour, and then head to FFC Union Station to shower up. I'll have to look at next week's schedule to see if I can make that happen!
On the way back, the path was just as bad, so it was high zone 1 home. I could tell I'm getting faster on the flats, at least. zone 1 and 16-17mph was great. Most of the time, I was probably going closer to 12-13 for safety's sake. When I got home, MB had prepared a lovely dinner of pork chops, asparagus and salad. I added some tomato/sweet onion salad to what I ate and after a few minutes of overlap, he left to coach swimming at the pool.
I went to bed 1/2 way into the Blackhawks game and he stayed up for the overtime again. Thursday is supposed to be a longer workout....
I got some incredibly sad and frustrating news about the health of a friend during the morning on Wednesday and I had been intending to ride on my bike trainer in the living room after work to hit the target heart rate zones, but instead when I got home, I changed and decided to ride outside and get some fresh air.
Riding on the Lakeshore Path after 5pm on a weekday in the summer is truly maddening, even for the casual cyclist. Riding anywhere between Irving Park and Ohio Street is a total cluster. People have no respect for the center yellow line and no sense of space. Runners run 3-4 deep, walkers swing bags over their shoulders into the moving lane and people stop and turn- into traffic- with abandon! So I rode in zone 2 until I hit that area and then just took it easy, weaving in between all the people, bikes and errant volleyballs from Chicago Sport and Social games.
When I got to Ohio Street, rather than fight the bridge traffic, I looped back around to head north. I was a few minutes shy of half way. At the beach, I saw many women from my team in their wet suits at the beach obviously practicing open water swim. I have to admit that I was slightly miffed that my coach didn't note that in my training plan, but c'est la vie. I let it roll off my bike- not jealous of the seasickness I experience while swimming out there with the boats! There were about 50 people out there, most with groups, likely training groups together.
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On the way back, the path was just as bad, so it was high zone 1 home. I could tell I'm getting faster on the flats, at least. zone 1 and 16-17mph was great. Most of the time, I was probably going closer to 12-13 for safety's sake. When I got home, MB had prepared a lovely dinner of pork chops, asparagus and salad. I added some tomato/sweet onion salad to what I ate and after a few minutes of overlap, he left to coach swimming at the pool.
I went to bed 1/2 way into the Blackhawks game and he stayed up for the overtime again. Thursday is supposed to be a longer workout....
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