At this time for my “arduous leg day” trip I took my recumbent southeast in direction of Gilroy and again. I began out with two hours at a brisk tempo, then completed up with some intervals. The trip was difficult however gratifying. This was additionally good mindfulness training- it takes focus to maintain the tempo brisk however regular through the tempo portion. Intervals deliver up the whiny a part of your mind (“I don’t wish to hold going, that is uncomfortable!”) and it’s good psychological coaching to only notice these ideas however not give in to them.

I’ve not too long ago added some longer intervals to my session to higher put together me for challenges just like the Llagas hill climb.

I uploaded this exercise to Strava (https://www.strava.com, see member “wealthy king”) to see if it might pick any segments, and it discovered a number of. A part of my trip went on Dryden street which turns into Crews street. There’s a difficult little uphill known as the “Crews bump”, it turned out I used to be quantity 4 out of 11 in my age group which have performed that phase. My finest effort was in November final 12 months, on my upright, with a time of 6 min 46 sec. I used to be a bit of slower right now on the ‘bent. I clearly can enhance that, as a result of I didn’t know this was a phase so I’ve by no means focussed particularly on my effort over the “bump”. It’s good to have these native challenges for motivation.