SCREEN TIME

THE FIRST TIME I MONITORED MY WEEKLY SCREEN TIME, I was blown away.  How could I possibly be spending so much time looking at my phone...

... when I could be riding?!!

But, what about my Wahoo screen?

How much time do I spend looking at that?

And, if our minds can be altered by what goes in via that phone...

.... what does that say about what we see on our bike computers?

I'm doing an experiment to keep my mind fresh and clean.

Phone - no screen time before Noon.  Get the day started off unpolluted.

Wahoo - only 2 metrics, heart rate and cadence.

Why only those two?

Well, lately I've noticed when things are getting spicy I'll look and see a high power number and think...

... Oh, that's really hard just hold that.

Meanwhile, my heart rate is ticking along way under max bpm.

Before you get all bro, are you even warmed up, yes, this is well into the ride.

What I'm hoping for is to push harder, earlier in the effort...

... without freakin' myself out.

As for the cadence, when really getting after it...

... it's always good to see if I'm in the RPM sweet spot.

And, it's not just the hard efforts.

Same goes for the easy days.

Often, I'll look down and see the HR is Zone 2, but the watts seem too high, and I'll back it down.

Meanwhile, I'll still be recording all the other data to look at post work out.

In other words...

... gonna do some old school HR based training.

Nothing like the off-season to mess around.