Thursday, 14 February 2008

Race against the clock #2

Second 10k TT of the year this afternoon... just needed to blow off a little steam before departing for Las Vegas.


The stage:
1.  Music absent (ok)
2.  Visual stimulus included looking out the window (ok)
3.  Thursday afternoon after an i-banking workweek (sure, it's a short week, but don't forget "it's hard to get 80 hours in if you don't do 14 on Monday and Tuesday") (-)
4.  Pre-game meal was a Durango Sizzler burrito/wrap for lunch, and a co-workers' ice cream birthday cake (+/-)

The result:
10k, 16 mins, 40 seconds, average of 314W.  I weigh 171 lbs at the moment.  

The reflection:
That's 1W more and 9 seconds less than last week.  But more importantly, it didn't feel absolutely miserable.  It felt hard, mildly miserable, but do-able.  Another week or two of this and we should be onto something.

I'll be riding in warmer weather for 4 days, and I intend to ride quite a bit.  If I can rest up and do another one next week, I bet it'd show improvement just from increased blood volume.

Let's hope!

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