Quote Originally Posted by Brandi
I like that you were afraid it would beep at you, that's funny! Tell me more about recovery?
Well basically you want to get to a point where your heart rate goes down fast. Ex: You work hard up a hill, bring your HR to 180, and about one minute after you've started riding the flat you're down to 150-160, and if you stop altogether your HR will quickly (within minutes) drop down to 100ish values.

Besides, you improve as you recover, so you don't want to spend too much time in the higher values, but you want to go there many times. While doing intervals, for example... (you push very hard for some time and relax for some time, one or two sessions of this a week - if you search "intervals" on this site you'll find a lot of info).

Enjoy the recovery time...