Today's ride - odd experience. - Page 4

01-17-2005, 06:31 AM

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:58:04 GMT, RonSonic <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ].com>
wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 22:55:14 -0500, jj <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
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>>Anyway, I'm psyched.
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>Two things. There really are biorhythms we really do have a few biological
>cycles going on and some days are simply better than others.
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>I find improvement comes in leaps that pay off the previous work. Now that may
>just be me recovering from having been out of shape - I'm sure that if I were in
>great shape any improvement would come in smaller increments.
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>Here, you've combined an ongoing fitness program with recent improvements in
>technique and then put the combination to the test.
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>Sounds like a formula for success.
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>Enjoy.
>
>Ron

What's a little odd, to me is that I had an apparent loss of ability in
October. Mileage was down, and in November, I was still struggling - only
about 80% of my ability mid-summer. Wasn't the weather, might have been a
dip in motivation. I picked up some in Late Nov., but was still struggling
to keep up the miles and the speed in early December.

Now, all of a sudden the motivation is high, the weather is worse <g>, both
cold and windy on the East coast.

My best guess, besides what you're saying is that I might have dropped
about 10lbs, and I might have recovered my 'psych', and with just the
better body geometry to allow me to get lower on the bike, well, there you
have it...a great synergy, allowing an almost phenomenal improvement
(comparatively).

I'm liking it...

BTW, I got out and did it again yesterday, despite feeling so-so, but when
I hit the first hill, *bang* it was like being shot out of a gun.

I fell off the form in the middle of the first hill, and struggled a
little, but within about 10 minutes, I was maintaining form on all the
hills and did a series of repeats of several steep sections and the form
had just slammed into place - I was locked into it on the bike - way kool!

Not sure if I recounted it but I even dropped a big white Suburban on one
medium-short climb up a side street - it was a treat to see him getting
smaller in my mirror. He tried to catch me, but there was a speed bump, and
he just couldn't deal - poor thing...ROFL ;-)

jj