Quote Originally Posted by melissam View Post
You might try The Heart Rate Monitor Book for Outdoor and Indoor Cyclists: A Heart Zone Training Program, by Sally Edwards and Sally Reed. It has many, many workout plans based on heart rate, which you can do on your trainer this winter.
Thanks Melissa,

I might just have to ask for a heart rate monitor for Christmas, that sounds like a good book. I took a look on Amazon last night. And bikejournal.com sounds great, too. I'll head over there and sign up, I think it will help a lot.

Makbike - I think I'm going to start working on your gear suggestion to get my strength up. When I ride now I bit of single leg pedaling on both sides to get used to using my leg for spinning and not just pushing so I think working through the gears will help my legs become much stronger as well.