Cranking Like a Demon
Apr. 16th, 2022 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayI've definitely been working harder since resuming my outdoor bike rides. Even on downhill runs, I'm cranking like a demon so that my heart and lungs are really pushing to supply the legs with the oxygen they need.
And it's not even something that I'm doing consciously. It just comes over me the minute I turn onto the road from the end of my driveway and start the first 7/10ths-mile leg down to West Genesee Street.
Indoor training was always a "placeholder" for me, a way of maintaining minimal fitness over the winter, even when I was commuting. It was a way to shorten the time, until I'd be back in "road condition," from 4-6 weeks down to maybe a couple.
Now, it's an absolute necessity because, at my age, it'd take forever to reach that threshold again--if and when I'd ever get back to it.
As it is, I've only done one of the "two-a-days" that I'd gotten accustomed to doing over the past two outdoor seasons. That is, two 3.15 mile rides up and down the varied inclines which constitute the majority of my route.
My normal regimen would be one 15-minute ride in the morning, an hour or so of rest and rehydration, followed by my 30-40 minute fitness routine, another hour or so of rest and rehydration, followed by a second 3.15 mile ride.
I AM thinking that I started the last two outdoor seasons with just one ride and one workout per day and then added a second ride when I'd become accustomed to that.
Which makes some sense because, the one day when I jumped right into that second ride, I skipped the workout entirely because I was so gassed by what I'd already done.
Even today, having done only one ride, I struggled to complete the 30 reps of supine leg lifts with 5 lbs. weights on each ankle. Ordinarily NOT a challenge at all, but today, after the craziness overtook me on my ride, virtually ALL of my leg exercises were.
Still, I love the craziness and hope it never leaves me. Or, if it does, when it does, that it goes out of me with my very last breath.
And that everyone who knows me will understand that I died happy...
LPK
Dreamwidth
4.15.2022
And it's not even something that I'm doing consciously. It just comes over me the minute I turn onto the road from the end of my driveway and start the first 7/10ths-mile leg down to West Genesee Street.
Indoor training was always a "placeholder" for me, a way of maintaining minimal fitness over the winter, even when I was commuting. It was a way to shorten the time, until I'd be back in "road condition," from 4-6 weeks down to maybe a couple.
Now, it's an absolute necessity because, at my age, it'd take forever to reach that threshold again--if and when I'd ever get back to it.
As it is, I've only done one of the "two-a-days" that I'd gotten accustomed to doing over the past two outdoor seasons. That is, two 3.15 mile rides up and down the varied inclines which constitute the majority of my route.
My normal regimen would be one 15-minute ride in the morning, an hour or so of rest and rehydration, followed by my 30-40 minute fitness routine, another hour or so of rest and rehydration, followed by a second 3.15 mile ride.
I AM thinking that I started the last two outdoor seasons with just one ride and one workout per day and then added a second ride when I'd become accustomed to that.
Which makes some sense because, the one day when I jumped right into that second ride, I skipped the workout entirely because I was so gassed by what I'd already done.
Even today, having done only one ride, I struggled to complete the 30 reps of supine leg lifts with 5 lbs. weights on each ankle. Ordinarily NOT a challenge at all, but today, after the craziness overtook me on my ride, virtually ALL of my leg exercises were.
Still, I love the craziness and hope it never leaves me. Or, if it does, when it does, that it goes out of me with my very last breath.
And that everyone who knows me will understand that I died happy...
LPK
Dreamwidth
4.15.2022
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