50 in 50: on the bike
I’ve not been on my bike for over four weeks. I did a wattbike session during the week and did a 2:20 ride today. But I find it so, so hard to get on the bike. Especially at the time of the year when the weather is not particularly nice.
So, the plan is to do 50 bike rides in the next 50 days. That’s between today and 9 January 2011.
I decided this on my ride today. I will still do some swimming and running but not as much as I would otherwise do. I pretty much decided that I would be happy to lose 5 minutes on the swim to gain 10 (or a lot more) time on the bike. It will be sad as this would mean that I won’t be on target to get a sub-1 hour swim (I’ve done sub-1 hour on all my IMs so far).
So the rules. There has to be rules!
1. Any type of biking is good. Road, tri, MTB, wattbike, spin. Anything is fine.
2. The ride needs to be for at least 30 minutes. Two rides a day is fine (e.g. to and from work is great) but there needs to be a proper break between rides (a ride to a cafe and back will only count once).
3. Any intensity is ok. However, an easy spin will only count after a very long run!
One of the reasons for doing this is that I still have not recovered properly from the Pembrokeshire Coast Challenge. I took Sparkie out for a couple of hours yesterday and my legs were so tired after. Also, my left hip flexor is still sore.