Woke up Thursday morning and it felt like my legs were beat all night long with a baseball bat. Although Advil PM helps me sleep through the aches and pains of a good day’s effort, I am certainly groggy when my alarm goes off. I was thinking, TRX is definitely going to be a game changer…if I survive.
Packed my road bike and complement of trainer, water bottles and bike clothes into my car and headed off to catch up with a half dozen guys who I have been riding with every Tuesday and Thursday night in the off season for the last 4 years. Without these masochists and a leader who lives in the hurt locker, I would be a puddle of goo when the first race occurs each year.
We warmed up nicely and then defined our workouts based on our abilities as measured by our power meters. This device has kept me from becoming my historically delusional self. Just because you don’t get dropped when everyone is on a trainer, does not mean you can keep up with them on the road…the power meter creates the mathematical equivalent of the difference between a Cat 4 and a Cat 2…just look at your watts.
20 minutes at a medium plus effort can be taxing, even if it feels relatively easy in the first 5 or 10 minutes, toward the end of the effort, I am always wishing it were over. 2 twenty minute efforts are a good wake up call when facing a 2 hour race in just over 6 weeks. I finished my 2 by 20’s and kept my watts right about where I was hoping…the TRX put pain in my calves and quads..again, hoping that the next few weeks will change my prospects in the upcoming cycling season.
Go WSI/Team Active Racing
Jack