This seems like as reasonable a place as any to mention this. At this stage it is very much in development, but it should be of interest to any weekend warriors. For now it is only available as a source download, so you have to be a bit Androidey to give it a go now, but once it is house broken I will put it on the market and get it out here.
Nice cycle today by the way. Hottest day of the year so far. And at the end of September mind.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Sorta interval training
I did some distance on the bike last week, so I wanted to do some more intense shorter workouts. If for no other reason than that I was spending too much time on the bike and not enough working.
Today I took the road bike out for about 40 minutes. The basic idea was to get warmed up for about 5 minutes. This was not a crawl warm up, but I was not killing myself either.
Then I started doing sprints for about 30 seconds - looking at the speedo while going flat out on a small cycle lane that crosses traffic and has random pedestrians misunderstanding what is for is a risky proposition, so timings are not quite exact. Then I would let the speed wind down for about a minute or so and then ramp it back up. Initially I was getting up to 30km/h for 30 seconds, but after a few cycles I was up to 40km/h. The 40 was just a target and I didn't stay there. Too hard given my current fitness.
I felt great after this workout and really feel that the compressed timeframe worked out well. I will be doing a few more workouts like this over the coming week and one long one to push the endurance up.
Today I took the road bike out for about 40 minutes. The basic idea was to get warmed up for about 5 minutes. This was not a crawl warm up, but I was not killing myself either.
Then I started doing sprints for about 30 seconds - looking at the speedo while going flat out on a small cycle lane that crosses traffic and has random pedestrians misunderstanding what is for is a risky proposition, so timings are not quite exact. Then I would let the speed wind down for about a minute or so and then ramp it back up. Initially I was getting up to 30km/h for 30 seconds, but after a few cycles I was up to 40km/h. The 40 was just a target and I didn't stay there. Too hard given my current fitness.
I felt great after this workout and really feel that the compressed timeframe worked out well. I will be doing a few more workouts like this over the coming week and one long one to push the endurance up.
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