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Started the day with a 10 mile indoor ride. It was still in the 30’s so I didn’t want to ride until it warmed up knowing we were headed for the upper 60’s. Around 11am I rode the Mt. Lookout to Ripley and back century, the same as last weeks ride. Unlike last week, I

I was scheduled to do 4×6 but did 6×4.25 since the hill near our house works well for that. The idea here is to stay in the saddle at 50-55 rpm. Its kind of like doing leg presses on the bike. Cadence averages went from 49 to 57 and power was around 318 or so.

Great day to ride a century and get in the 2×60 tempos. The first effort, divided into two 30 minute efforts with 3 minutes between so I could get through New Richmond, were both at 290 watts. The second effort, non-stop to Ripley after 10 minutes riding easy after the second 30 minute was at

Still too cold to do these outside so I did the one hour on the trainer at 280 watts. Lower than the efforts outside last Saturday but I’ll take it. Luckily I had the History of the Eagles on DirecTv to occupy my mind for the hour. HR was actually pretty low in the mid

Have to say that when I saw 2×60 minutes at tempo on the schedule I wasn’t thrilled. No way would I do these inside. Fortunately todays weather was pretty decent (40’s) so I got outside. Overall rode 100 miles and fit these in early in the ride. The first 30 minutes went from River Downs