Today's training schedule had two things on it. The first was a choice between swimming or laying in bed. I'd prepared everything the night before to be able to jump out of bed and get on the bike up to the UEA pool, but then as I lay in bed the day looked dark and wet so I stayed cosy and dry.
More success with the second item though and I was joined by Jonathan Tyrrell (JT) for that one. Our lunchtime ride was to include two 10 minute efforts at 85-90% of maximum heart rate. We were supposed to do a 10min warm up, the first effort, have 10min recover, do the second 10min effort, have a second recovery and then ride out the rest of the hour. We used our usual 16.3mile route out through Mulbarton and timed the efforts so as to avoid junctions. That meant that the warm up was more than 10 minutes and the warm down and ride back to work less than the 20 minutes.
We did the session correctly as you can see from the graph of my heart rate throughout the session. A low average for the warm up, middle recovery and warm down. Plus a nice high average during the two efforts. They were hard. Quote from JT of "Chilli would love this session".
Oh and the opening quote was from Amelia Earhart.
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