January Indoor Challenge

[Catrin]

Considering how wild the weather is, and the occasional demands of my neck injury recover, I've decided to use this challenge to focus on my over-all activity level like a couple of others have. I moved my goal up to 30 hours and this includes all formal exercise activities: riding outside, spinning class, indoor trainer, hiking and weights. As I am no longer in personal training, sadly, this will encourage me to keep up with what I know I need to do in all areas.

[marni]

well I admit that I am a luddite. Where does on find the January spread sheet for the indoor biking challenge?

marni

[Catrin]

well I admit that I am a luddite. Where does on find the January spread sheet for the indoor biking challenge?

marni

Veronica will email you the link

[Owlie]

10 minutes on the trainer before realizing that doing it with a cold and at 10:00 at night is probably not the best idea.

[Blueberry]

I so hear the doing it at 10:00 at night

If I exercise much past 8, I have troubles sleeping (though I have to say - this challenge has had me sleeping much better - on average).

I'm 7 for 7 this month. I am allowing myself to cross train this month as I wish - which I suspect will result in less total rest days. My legs were trashed yesterday, and felt much better for a 45 minute zone 2 spin. This is a positive change!

[Red Rock]

All of my good intentions came to a smoking end this week. Wed was my Bday so I was totally distracted. Then I have had thyroid issues, like lack of energy and not sleeping well at night to give me problems. Hubby is watching the football, it is a nice sunny day but it's very cold outside. I'm thinking about eating lunch and then hitting the treadmill. That way I have food in me before even trying to do something. Then I can watch the football while I'm walking. *cross fingers*

[Catrin]

Unheard of nice weather in January for central Indiana! A bit cooler than yesterday, but highs still in the 40's. I got in an hour on the road - was going to ride longer but the wind started picking up and my neck started complaining. It has really improved with the PT, even after only 2 visits, but I am not pushing it.

When I got home from my ride I broke out my mountain bike and just played in the grass for awhile, rolled off a couple of curbs to make certain I still remember how to roll over small obstacles. Well, any excuse will do right now I didn't push it and it felt great to be back on my mountain bike - even doing such simple things with it - the first time I've been on it since my fall in late October.

[Norse]

I will be out of town next weekend so it was all evil Coach Troy this weekend. Mental Toughness on Saturday and The Pain Cave yesterday. I did enjoy a nice 45 minute walk through the neighborhood with Katy dog yesterday. I would have liked to have gotten outside for a ride (what a strange "winter" we are having) but I had a lot to get done and it is just easier and quicker to hop on the trainer.

[Susan Otcenas]

Yeah - we locked it at the beginning of January. We didn't want people accidentally adding to the old one.

Thom's got some ideas of how to jazz it up as time goes - with charts and graphs and whatnot.

I added it in for you.

Veronica

Thanks, V!

[Susan Otcenas]

Great class this morning:

Warmup to low Z2 over 5:00

3 x 1:00 at 110 rpm in Z3, with 1:00 recovery between each at low Z2, 90rpm

3:00 Z1 recovery

4 x 0:45 alternate leg pedal drills with 2 min Z1 recovery between each

3:00 Z1 recovery

3 x 3:00 at 110 rpm, max effort with target avg of high Z4. 3:00 Z1 recovery between each.

8-10-12-16-18-16-12-10-8 seated strength pyramid: This entails dialing up the tension so hard that you are starting at a very very high load at 50 rpm. At "go", the idea is to, WHILE SEATED, stomp the pedals as hard as you can with the goal of hitting 80rpm by the end of the designated interval (8 seconds, 10 seconds, 12 seconds, etc.) These are all out efforts; your max power numbers will go WELL beyond Z5. 2:00 easy pedal recovery between each interval. The first couple aren't so bad, but by the time you get to the 16 and 18 seconds intervals, it gets very difficult to sustain the max efforts at such a high resistance.

5 minute recovery.

Um, I"m a little sore....

[Blueberry]

Does anyone else use Garmin connect? If so, have you noticed lots of Server Down messages of late?

Seems to be much more frequently of late (and my device isn't great for gathering data by hand).

[maillotpois]

Does anyone else use Garmin connect? If so, have you noticed lots of Server Down messages of late?

I use Strava. I really love it.

This good weather is really putting a damper on my indoor training!

[marni]

Today when I took the dogs out at 7:00 AM the sky and the light were both an ugly bruise/mustard/wrath of God yellow. At 7;30 it started blowing, raining, hailing and flooding. Between 7:30 and 10:30 we got five inches of rain, and the water in the street was halfway up the driveway and fountaining out of the man holes.

I was happily seated on my indoor trainer, doing steady heart rate intervals in z2-4. Did an hour and a half.

While Texas is still in a drought and we do need rain, this was too much, too fast. But it was interesting to watch the storm while I was riding. The dogs were distinctly not amused as there was nothing in the trainer room to hide behind, or under so they sat curled around themselves at either side, whimpering and trembling.

Interesting times.

marni

[Catrin]

Yesterday I walked for 1 hour and 15 minutes on the track at the gym (this didn't go in the spreadsheet) and took a 1 hour spinning class (this did).

I wanted to do weights yesterday, but my calves were sore from the weekend - which never happens so I took it as a sign to back off.

[marni]

yesterday when I took the dogs out at 7:00 AM the sky and the light were both wrath of God mustard yellow. At 7:30 the thunder, lightning and rain started. At 8:00 the wind started and at 9:00 the hail followed. It all tapered off by 10:30 but we got over 5 " of rain, and all the local streets were flooded halfway up the lawns. Since I couldn't get out to get to my regular training session I put in 2 hours of sustained high cardio intervals on the trainer. I might get in a road ride tomorrow if the weatherman is correct about his forecast, but I was sure glad to be inside on the trainer yesterday!

marni