CompuTrainer Class: Strength Training I

I fell apart during today's ride. I went out determined to do my best, which I did, but it wasn't enough to get me through the entire class. That was a bummer, because I really wanted to do well from a numbers standpoint. I rode as much of a workout as I could before I just couldn't pedal: 2 minutes into the first 4-minute block. Then I rode for another 12:40 at a tempo pace before not having the energy to continue. Super frustrating. But I did my best, rode as well as I could for as long as I could.

The efforts at 110% and 100% were at a very slow cadence—70–75 RPM. Thursday (3-10); Tuesday (3-08):

• 1:08:00, 154 HR, 181 max
  1:36:00, 160 HR, 185 max
• 13:55 warmup to warm up the trainer, 120 HR
  16:33 warmup to warm up the trainer, 122 HR
• 14:45 warm up, 153 HR; 10-second sprint
  13:00 warm up, 152 HR; 10-second sprint, 2 min active recovery, 167 HR
• 8:00 tempo, 165 HR; 10-second sprint, 30-second recovery, 163 HR
  5:40 tempo, 170 HR; 10-second sprint, 30-second recovery, 181 HR
• 4:00 tempo, 169 HR; 10-second sprint, 30-second recovery, 172 HR
  3:54 tempo, 176 HR; 10-second sprint, 30-second recovery, 183 HR
• 3:49 tempo, 172 HR; 10-second sprint, 3:40 recovery, 163 HR
  3:45 tempo, 177 HR; 10-second sprint, 3:40 recovery, 169 HR
• 2 min at 110%, 166 HR; 3 min active recovery, 166 HR
  2 min at 110%, 173 HR; 3 min active recovery, 169 HR
• 2:18 at 110%, 165 HR
  4 min at 110%, 177 HR; 5 min active recovery, 168 HR
• 12:40 tempo (~85%), 164 HR
  6 min at 100%, 177 HR; 5 min active recovery, 167 HR
• 6 min at 100%, 177 HR; 5 min active recovery, 167 HR
• 4 min at 110%, 176 HR; 3 min active recovery, 170 HR
• 2 min at 110%, 171 HR; 1:30 active recovery, 167 HR

The workout looked somewhat like this (I skipped the last 4 blocks):