Building My Winter Training Plan

Now that daylight savings is gone until next March I need to ride indoors during the week if I want to maintain, and hopefully build, my fitness.  Fortunately, indoor trainer workouts can be very efficient without being long.  I find that a well planned 45-60 minute workout on the trainer can really be beneficial.  The [...] Read more »

Weekly Update For September 7, 2008

Week In Review Here is my activity review for the week ended Sept 7th, 2008. Time Spent Training-6:29 Miles Ridden-107.5 TSS (training stress score)-446 Weight-164 TSS YTD-14,672 Total Miles YTD-3,513 Total Hours YTD-201:42 This past week was a bit closer to average for me.  I definitely reduced the number of hours and distance covered.  That [...] Read more »

First Half of 2008 Review

Well, 2008 is half over. Time sure flies when you’re having fun! The year is going well for me so far and I am looking forward to the second half. Here are some numbers (thru June, 30): Total Miles- 2,250 Total Time- 128 hours Total Rides- 94 I am right on pace to do 250 [...] Read more »

Years Highest Mileage Week

Today was the end of the best week of the year mileage wise, 153 miles. I ended the week with a nice 65 mile effort today. Yesterday was a brisk 37 mile group ride. That gave me 102 miles for the weekend. I am almost back on pace compared to where I was last year [...] Read more »