Pedalling in the right direction?

3 Jan 2008

Back to Decathlon after work, picked up lights and asked about heart rate monitors, found them - there are so many different sorts, why didn't I read about this stuff before I got here!

Anyway decided that I didn't need the £250 GPS one that tracks your heart rate against your route so you can download it onto your computer analyse it and, and what? What would I do with all that information, when, with three kids, work, and trainnig would I find the time to do any analysis! I opted for a simple one - records how long I exercise for, my average heart rate and my max heart rate. I still don't really know what I'm supposed to do with the information anyway!

Got home, helped put Amy to bed, left Clare to do Joe & Izzy while I got changed, got the bike out of the shed, didn't bother with the heart rate monitor and went out for my first training ride!

I did 40 min ride round Bishop's Stortford, I don't have a cyclometer of any sort, so I don't know how far I went! I went out in the car to measure the distance after - then realised I could have used google maps to measure it and save myself a few litres of very expensive petrol!

11 miles, more that I've done on a bike in years, so I'm pleased that I've started, despite getting cramp in the last few hundred yards, and having a sore bum. Oh - and I know know where some big pot holes are, I'm not sure my lights are bright enough!

200 miles in a day seems a very long way!