I went on a local ride of a bit over two hours, first northwest of Morgan Hill in the Coyote Valley then West of town on some quieter residential streets. After warming up I did a brisk tempo ride of over an hour, then finished up with some intervals and short hill climbs. I felt … Continue reading Cloudy But Dry →

Today I was striving for a brisk ride in "zone 2" which is heart rate around 110-120 for me. I went up to South San Jose and back on my recumbent at an average hr of 112 so hit my target pretty well. It was unexpectedly raining (lightly) for about the first hour then cleared … Continue reading Brisk longer ride →

Sorry I missed some days of reporting, this will catch me up. Thursday was my upper body workout which I did in the garage, then I took my recumbent out, with the performance seat in a highly reclined position and my new headrest. It was surprisingly not noticeably faster than my normal setup. I did … Continue reading Weekend Riding →

Yesterday I once again got fooled by the weather forecast, but this time it didn't get me wet, I ended up riding on my trainer when I didn't really need to. It was supposed to rain earlier in the morning and then clear up, but instead it didn't start raining until the afternoon. I rode … Continue reading Mostly Indoors →

We have some more rain coming but it held off long enough for us to get our group ride in yesterday. It was a pretty pleasant day, not too windy but cold. We did our monthly outing to the restaurant at Coyote Creek Golf Course, with a detour around the flooded part by going over … Continue reading Tuesday Group Ride- Cloudy But Dry →

I've changed my schedule so Monday is my longest ride of the week. This is the ride I'll be ramping up each week until I do a metric century some time later this month (one of two Strava challenges I signed up for in March). Yesterday's ride (on Strava here) was 41 miles in just … Continue reading Longer Morning Ride →

Yesterday I did my upper body workout followed by a cruise on my recumbent. I was semi-rainproof, because the weather report said I had a window of about two hours before the rain would start. If only the weather report could be trusted. I got rained on fairly heavily for about half the ride. Fortunately … Continue reading Local Ride in the Rain →

After friday's harder ride I cruised south to San Martin yesterday and did an easier ride for 1 hour 43 minutes. These recovery rides always make me feel better after, I call it "spinning the junk out of my legs". Posted on Strava After my recent discussion of the year (and month and week) records … Continue reading Easy Ride to San Martin →

Today was a hard riding day on my schedule, supposed to be 3 hours 30 minutes. I ended up cutting it short to 2 hours 35 minutes because the rain was much harder and steady than forecast and my raingear was starting to soak through. I headed up Monterey highway to Coyote ranch road which … Continue reading Hard Ride in the Rain →

Today was my upper body workout followed by an easy bike ride. I forgot to mention in talking about periodization yesterday that if your main exercise mode is lower-body specific like cycling, it is important not to neglect training the upper body with its own exercises. When I'm heavily emphasizing cycling like now, I still … Continue reading Easy Day Plus Upper Body →