CompuTrainer Class: Maximizing Aerobic Capacity VII

Today's class was very hard, especially from 1:22 through 1:30 (basically the final 8 minutes of the last effort). But Will told me last week that I couldn't complain about a workout being too easy (which was basically the entire "Aerobic Capacity" session) and then complain about the same (or pretty similar) workouts being too hard. So I decided to tough it out, hard and all. By 1:22 I was struggling to keep my cadence at or above 90, but I was keeping it there. If I'd have gotten to the point where I couldn't get it back up, I'd have gotten off. But since I'd made it that far, I was committed and staying on to finish!

^{^^}This is basically what the ride looked like, and this is how it went _vv.

2-07-12. 2-09-12. 2-14-12. 2-17-12. 2-21-12

• Total: 1:25:00, 150 bpm (173 max)
  Total: 1:45:38, 155 bpm (182 max)
  Total: 56:50, 159 bpm (184 max)
  Total: 1:33:00, no HR data
  Total: 1:45:00, 160 bpm (179 max)
• Warm up: 14:40, 104 bpm
  Warm up: 13:38, 100 bpm
  Warm up: 13:50, 132 bpm
  No warm up
  Warm up: 12:35, 118 bpm
• Warm up: 16:00, 150 bpm; 4min rest, 143 bpm
  Warm up: 16:00, 146 bpm; 4min rest, 148 bpm
  Warm up: 16:00, 160 bpm; 4min rest, 154 bpm
  Warm up: 16:00; 4min rest
  Warm up: 12:00, 153 bpm; 4min rest, 145 bpm
• Tempo #1: 20:00, 168 bpm; 3min rest, 156 bpm
  Tempo #1: 20:00, 171 bpm; 3min rest, 163 bpm
  Tempo #1: 20:00, 178 bpm; 3min rest, 168 bpm
  Tempo #1: 20:00; 3min rest
  Tempo #1: 25:00, 170 bpm; 3min rest, 159 bpm
• Tempo #2: 20:00, 165 bpm; 3min rest, 149 bpm
  Tempo #2: 20:00, 171 bpm; 3min rest, 161 bpm
  Tempo #2: skipped
  Tempo #2: 20:00; 3min rest
  Tempo #2: 20:00, 170 bpm; 3min rest, 158 bpm
• Tempo #3: 4:20, 162 bpm
  Tempo #3: 20:00, 175 bpm
  Tempo #3: skipped
  Tempo #3: 25:00
  Tempo #3: 25:00, 174 bpm
• Cool down: skipped
  Cool down + sprint: 6:00, 143 bpm, 688W
  Cool down: skipped
  Cool down: 4min
  Cool down: 1:25, 153 bpm

My plan is to train later and perhaps hit the step mill, but we'll see how my legs cooperate. Tomorrow is a rest day, though, so I might decide to work hard.