December Totals

December Training Totals:

Swim - 19,450 yards; 6 hours, 40 minutes

Bike - 103.5 miles; 7 hours, 25 minutes

Run - 127.4 miles; 19 hours, 17 minutes

Total Training Time - 33 hours, 22 minutes

More time in each sport this month....even with the holidays and all of the hectic-ness they bring.

I am starting a Computrainer bike class in January. This is an organized indoor ride at a local bike shop where I use my own bike on a Computrainer, which provides different levels of resistance while you ride "courses". Bikers swear by the Computrainer for bike improvements. I'm hoping this will help my winter riding program as it will guarantee me a 90 minute hard ride once a week in addition to my other trainer sessions.

So, in order to get the most benefits from the Computrainer sessions, one should do a "test" ride to callibrate the trainer to one's fitness level and current power output ability. Let me be clear that before October of 2009, I have rode a total of maybe 10 times in the past two years. I am starting from ground zero. I was not expecting fabulousness from my "test". DH reassured me by saying "don't worry honey, there has to be SOMEONE you can beat"...haha I wasn't so sure. During the test, there were 8 people - 6 men, two women. Everyone looked serious and like they had done this before. Needless to say, I was smoked by everyone but a [70] year old man (barely - I give him serious props). My reassurance is that this is a race against myself for improvement. Opening avg power output: 115 watts [cringe]. (To put this in perspective, the "top" guy at the test had an avg power output of ~260 watts!!!)

Guess I should stop writing and start biking.....