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'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' Theodore Roosevelt 23 April 1910

Wednesday, 3 June 2009

Better Than Expected.

As some of you may know, I do all my turbo training based on power, rather than HR. This evening, I mentioned to a friend that I was doing an hour at 75% of FTP that I have planned to be my Barcelona bike pace. They asked what HR that was and I said "I don't know", but we agreed that it might be interesting to find out. So tonight I did my session (only 55 minutes due to domestic matters to attend to) and the ave HR was a mere 131, although it had crept up to about 133-134 at the end. It has been a couple of weeks since I did an FTP test and these figures suggest I am overdue another, as I may well be training below the optimal level. Time for another 30 minutes of pain, although I think I will leave it until after Sunday's IS sportive! It looks like I should rack up well in excess of 300km on the bike this week; things really are looking up.
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