I am including today as a training day. We received about 16 inches of snow and I spent about 3 hours moving it to the sides of the driveway. Great upper body workout. Snow days are not for lounging around, but for working out!
Almost forgot to mention that my FitBit filed all my shoveling under “Sport”. Haha, joke’s on it.
No training over the weekend – it was Valentines Day on Sunday. Didn’t make it to Saturday Yoga either. Today was supposed to be a Yoga day and while it technically was, the (substitute) teacher decided to extend Valentines Day and had us doing partner and trust exercises. After sitting on my tush all day I would rather have moved more. I’m not sure this counted as training, perhaps more as another recovery day – 4th in a row. I will be all rested for tomorrow.
Yet another very short session; just 30 minutes again. Spent most of my time at setting 15 and 16 with another 4 minutes at setting 19, broken up into 3 parts. Averaged 23.1 MPH. Life is too busy and stressful to have sufficient time. Maybe next week.
Short time spinning today because I have to deliver dinner at 6:00 PM. Well, I am going to be late for that because I want to get exercise in. So it’s 30 minutes on the bike while peddling rapidly and going nowhere. Spent most of the time at setting 15 and 16 will about 4 minutes at setting 19 and 20. So I guess not all of it was fast peddling. Covered 12.3 miles for a nice MPH of 24.5.
82 minutes of spinning with the tough teacher for 60 of them. At about 5′ 0″ she’s a ball of energy and does everything she’s having the class do so there’s no excuse. Needless to say I make some up so I don’t have to do absolutely everything (such as: I’ve already put in an extra 20 minutes before class). Lots of time at setting 14 and 20 today (yes, more standing than normal). Lots of animal stretching afterwards: lizard, upward dog, cobra, and pigeon. Feeling the thighs.
It looks like I won’t be doing RAW this year since early signup ends on March 1 and I don’t even have a street bike yet! But we’ll see.
Yoga! For 1.25 hours of relaxation and exercise. Ready for tomorrow after 12+5 car ride hours over the weekend? We shall see.
Spent 6 hours in the car and 18 minutes on an elliptical. Not quite training, but some moving. Not much exercise this weekend.
This was a longer spinning ride at 1:15:25 ride. That’s a whole 15 minutes longer than typical! Tougher than yesterday; I’m not sure if it was because of a different bike or because of exercising yesterday. I am hoping it’s the bike :). Serious butt uncomfortable issues. Spent most of the time at setting 14 with a bit of time at 15 with 90 RPM and 83 RPM respectively. Did a little more than 4 minutes of “running” and standing climbs so I think that’s good. Got a good stretching that included Yoga moves after.
Back on the spinning bike again – with little tolerance for being in one spot however. Only 48 minutes on the bike of easy riding at setting 15 and 85-90 RPM. Which the machine says is 25.6 mph if one can believe such things.
No training today. Went and saw Oscar nominated animation shorts tonight. Gonna be a little stir-crazy tomorrow although I think my legs and hips appreciate it after yoga yesterday.