The wheels go round and round…
Cycling. And more cycling. And then some more. Today was my first ever double cycling day – I rode for 90 minutes in the morning and then another 35 minutes after work. As I’ve mentioned, I’m keeping the intensity of my workouts pretty low. As a result, it doesn’t feel that hard on my muscles to do the extra time on the bike. However, it is somewhat “hard” on my rear end.
This morning’s ride I did some spin-ups (working slowly up to a max RPM, then laying off just a bit and holding it for a few seconds) with long recoveries, so that was more interesting than the steady, constant pedaling I did tonight, yesterday and Sunday.
I was uptown this afternoon to meet my friend Susannah for lunch and stopped into SBR to pick up some spacers to raise my aerobar elbow pads a bit (12.5mm to be exact – it’s been amazing to see how much a relatively small difference affects the way the bike feels). I took the Crono into Jackrabbit on Sunday and we spent a fair bit more time working on it. Jonathan made some adjustments to the seat position and we put in a longer (11cm) stem and added a spacer to raise the handlebars a bit. We also moved the aerobar extensions around. Now I’m going to try raising the elbow pads. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that that this will do the trick.
Charlie had his knee surgery this morning. I dropped him off at around 8. It wasn’t real fun to hand his leash over to the vet tech. I knew that he’d be OK – and that the surgery would help him be better than OK – but it was still hard to let him go. The doctor called at around 2 with the good news that the surgery went well and he was sleeping off the anaesthesia. Elizabeth called the hospital this evening and they said he was doing just fine. We’ll pick him up tomorrow evening. We’ll sure be happy to see the little guy! (Now, I just hope Elizabeth can figure out what’s going on with her knee. It’s gotten much better since Sunday, but it’s still stiff and painful. She has a doctor’s appointment scheduled for Friday.)
Bike – Febraury 13
Time: 1:30
Average heart rate: 101
Indoor ride
Bike – February 13
Time: 0:35
Average heart rate: 102
Indoor ride