Encouragement on Victory Ride
Victory Ride -- 7/21/2004
rode out the normal spot and circled until the group came up. when they turned the corner all i could see were bean's jerseys -- actually there were two others but at first glance it was bean's team -- and noticeably fewer guys than normal. they were moving and it was intimidating. i got on and hung on until the hill up to north brook. i lost contact about 2/3 up the hill. part of me wanted to turn around, go home and lick my wounds. the more tenacious part of me won out and I persevered on the route. just before reaching 82, the rest of the group, essentially everyone else except the bean's crew, came rolling up on me. i finished the ride into Dtown with this group. Which is an improvement. Usually, I get dropped by everyone. Now just the very fastest are dusting me. Encouragement! Sweet.
time: 1.47.15
dst: 33.69 miles
av: 18.8 mph
even more than usual, av is artificially low. in addition to low speed waiting for the group, spent additional slow time riding to library to return book on the way to meeting spot. even at that av was 19.7 in Dtown, riding solo with moderate-hard effort back to WC av dropped off considerably.
considering a HRM. any of the three people who read this have any recommendations? i was considering the Polar 520 with the cadence option, but recently read some reviews of the 720 which were less than glowing concerning Polar's wireless cadence sensor. thoughts?
rode out the normal spot and circled until the group came up. when they turned the corner all i could see were bean's jerseys -- actually there were two others but at first glance it was bean's team -- and noticeably fewer guys than normal. they were moving and it was intimidating. i got on and hung on until the hill up to north brook. i lost contact about 2/3 up the hill. part of me wanted to turn around, go home and lick my wounds. the more tenacious part of me won out and I persevered on the route. just before reaching 82, the rest of the group, essentially everyone else except the bean's crew, came rolling up on me. i finished the ride into Dtown with this group. Which is an improvement. Usually, I get dropped by everyone. Now just the very fastest are dusting me. Encouragement! Sweet.
time: 1.47.15
dst: 33.69 miles
av: 18.8 mph
even more than usual, av is artificially low. in addition to low speed waiting for the group, spent additional slow time riding to library to return book on the way to meeting spot. even at that av was 19.7 in Dtown, riding solo with moderate-hard effort back to WC av dropped off considerably.
considering a HRM. any of the three people who read this have any recommendations? i was considering the Polar 520 with the cadence option, but recently read some reviews of the 720 which were less than glowing concerning Polar's wireless cadence sensor. thoughts?
posted by kj at
7/22/2004 07:13:00 PM
1 Comments:
Lately Beta Band, Arco, Neutral Milk Hotel and the new B-Boys album have had steady play, the old stand-bys Bob Mould and Jane's Addiction also see a good bit of play.
Why not use the Percieved Exertion Scale instead of an HRM? You know how hard you're working, why use a flawed measure when you can tell internally.
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Tim, at 4:32 PM
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