That does look like a cool ride. And is a pond slider a... frog? Haven't heard that one before! Do we have them in Washington state?

I had high hopes for a 1.5 hr ride outdoors but it was blowing quite a bit around the time I was going to leave. Being lazy and wimpy as I am, I considered just laying around instead like the polar bear pic (pretty cool one, btw), but instead hopped onto the trainer.

Got in 75 minutes, with 4x 3min "lactate threshold" intervals with 3 min rests in the center. I have no idea what lactate threshold is for me, but I figured it to be perceived effort of 8-9? So that's what I did. The first one I burned out in 30 seconds and made only one minute, so rested a min then finished. The next three I didn't go quite as hard, so as to be able to finish all three minutes! Doesn't sound like long, but seems like a lifetime when doing it!

And got to catch up on some vcr taped tv at the same time. Productive!