Well my working out on the trainer seems to be paying off, I set a few different marks that I feel are impressive as well as achieving a goal I set almost a month ago. First the goal that I set, which is what caused me to work so hard last night, on mapmyride.com/tdf you set a goal to achieve a subset of the Tour de France, any where from 100% of the tour to 4.6% or 100 miles of the tour, which is what I chose. I had achieved 84 miles as of yesterday morning, so in order to complete it I would have needed to log another 16 miles, which I have never ridden that far before. So that was my mini goal last night to hit 16 miles in one session, and thought I would bike an hour to achieve it, well I made it with some time to spare. I actually completed 16.5 miles and it took me 50 minutes to do it, and in 45 minutes I had completed 14.7 miles, completely blowing out my old distance and time max from before. I also set a record for myself by making it 9.5 miles in 30 minutes, and I actually was feeling quite good at 30 minutes. I actually blew my old average speed out of the water too, the fastest average I had before was 17.6 mph, last night I actually made it 19.8 mph over the course of my ride. I am starting to feel very confident in my fitness level as far as starting to join a biking group and being able to keep up with them. On a side note, all of this riding has also had a side effect which is also making me happy, I have dropped from 214 on 6/25 to 208 as of 7/18, that was not just from biking, it is from biking and watching my intake of food and snacks and I also have been weighing myself everyday, which I think really helps me, it forces me to consider what I am eating the previous day or two.
Thanks for reading,
Later