May 21, 2022

DAY RIPPER

THE LOW CLOUDS EVENTUALLY BROKE FORTH. Not rain, but not fog. Somewhere in between. Enough to dirty the lens, not enough to soak the socks...

... no better weather for ripping!

Woke up groggy, took forever to get out the door, and really didn't have much of a plan other than trying to find the local speedsters on the CV ride. Of course, right about the time I wanted to catch them I really had to pee, tucked in behind some bushes...

... I could hear the gaggle of geese freewheeling by.

Perfect.

Chasing, which is what I was hoping for.

I wanted to be pushed hard today. It's the last week of a 3-week build, and I wanted to go really deep.

Mission accomplished, highest fitness I've ever seen on Strava.

Things are percolating right along for a summer of racing.

Part of seeing that peak fitness has been my commitment to polarized training. A lot of zone 2, plus 2 hard days a week. The 2 hard days can be back to back or bookend the zone 2 work, it doesn't seem to matter. All that matters is that I don't go hard more than 2x a week. I'm hiding this in a long paragraph so the skimmers don't see it. It's just for you.

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