Progress Finally

Tonight's workout, courtesy of Coach B was a strength ride. We were to ride as much as possible in the big chain ring...even up the hills. I decided to ride in WC as I was short of time. As we all know WC has a nasty little hill but is mostly flat with some rollers.

Well I am happy to report I did stay in the big ring on the rollers and only dropped a few gears in the middle ring on "nasty, little hill". I actually manged to hold 13.5 mph on the hill and averaged 17.6 for the whole ride. Not blazing fast by most standards but I am stoked.

On a random note...after climbing "the hill" on the first loop, some guy pulls up next to me and starts quizzing me about my riding. This sort of irritated me, even though I think he was just trying to be kind. I just did not feel like explaining why I was trying to power up that hill in a heavy gear. Mainly because at that point I could hardly breathe.

Why do complete strangers feel the need to critique a persons workout? This happens to me in the pool sometimes. Oh well!!!

Swim Breakthrough

Well sort of. Today I had a mental breakthrough with my swimming. For once I did not stress out about doing the swim or hate the swim as I was doing it. I just got it done.

That my friends is serious progress.