It's Been a While

It's been a while since I've posted on here, so, here goes.

I have now been following Dr. Garry Palmer's training plan for seven weeks. I've generally achieved the required amount of time on the bike in those weeks, so, I feel pretty good about that and I've managed to achieve my target weight (79.9Kgs) without changing my diet very much. Since that first target is now out of the way I'll need to carry on with the interim training schedule and then have another consultation with Garry in January. In the meantime I am trying to ride with my heart rate in the top half of my zone (139-144 BPM) and I have to add a threshold training session to my plan as well as increasing the duration of my endurance rides. Currently the biggest problem I am having with long rides on the turbo trainer is that my backside is going to sleep after about fifty minutes. Thanks to a bit of advice from Gav, I have found that standing up and turning a big gear for a couple of minutes relieves the pressure and gets the blood flowing again, allowing me to do a bit more.

Thanks to the speed and cadence sensor Steve loaned me, I can now log how fast I am riding. At the moment I am achieving 22kph. The quick test I did riding in the gear I was initially using on the turbo trainer shows I was only doing 15kph, so I've made a significant improvement. Whether this magnitude of improvement will transfer to the road or not remains to be seen. An unstructured ride on the road in the near future is in order.