Hurty Good

Sometimes there is a fine line between training and self harm. The session this morning may have crossed that line.

Here are some stats for you: 120km, 1200m of elevation gain, 50 minutes of race intensity. For the whole 120km if I wasn't doing a hill repeat I was doing an interval. At times I wasn't sure if I was trying to ride or simply commit suicide by bike.

All up it was a pretty awesome session.

I don't often get on the bike with trepidation. I often feel pretty unsure heading into a run, but the bike, that's my happy place. But this morning it really took a bit of convincing to get myself out the door. Looking at this session on paper it was going to hurt, no two ways around it, it was a tough one. That is pretty much how it went.

But I got through it and I am happy with that. There was a point about two thirds of the way through my second set of hill repeats when I thought, that's it, I have got this now and that was a nice feeling.

The average speed certainly wasn't great, not bad, but not wonderful, but in a session with 100 minutes of hill repeats, that isn't really what you are going for, so I can live with that.

Absolutely beautiful morning for it as well. Perfect temperature, almost no wind. I was tossing up about whether to put on arm warmers, even to the point of walking out the door with them, but once I was outside I decided against them. For me that is a good indicator of a nice temperature, cool enough to make you think you might need arm warmers, but warm enough that you really don't. Really just lovely riding conditions for smashing your face against a bike.

It has gone on to become a very nice day as well.

I might spend the rest of my afternoon enjoying it.