This is a horrible idea...: Intervals with a Treat at the End

I slept for over 10 hours for the second night in a row. I'm just trying to get in as much sleep as possible before the week (and thus the construction) starts up again.

When I went outside this afternoon, it was COLD. Okay... so 70 isn't exactly arctic temperatures, but it was colder than I'm used to. Biking when it's 70 degrees and windy = goosebumps!

I'd like to point out that it's a very good thing my race is less than 2 weeks away, because I'm kind of getting burned out. Right now I've hit the point where I'm just bored with the same thing all the time (imagine how bored I would be if I only trained in ONE event!). But I can't let myself slow down quite yet. So to shake things up a little bit, I did bike intervals today.

Basically, you bike a mile at normal pace and see what your time is. Then you take that time and multiply it by 80% to find your goal time.

My mile time was 4:30.

80% of 4:30 is 3:36.

You then do 4 intervals of 1 mile with a 1 mile rest in between.

The problem with my 1 mile is that I couldn't find a stretch of 1 mile road that wasn't a busy road or really bumpy. I thought about using the bike path, but there were too many walkers for me to really go fast. I finally settled on a split road right near my apartment, however it was only about .6 mile long. This caused the issue of turning around mid-interval. I would be tucked down and going 19 mph and suddenly I'd have to brake and look for oncoming cars and make a U-turn. Then I'd have to try to speed back up to my 19 mph. ... Very difficult.

My splits looked like this:
3:42
3:32
3:27
3:26

I was proud that I was able to go a little bit faster each time around. By the end, my legs were burning good. I couldn't believe that after just looping around the block a bunch of times, I had ended up travelling 11.2 miles.

Distance: 11.202 miles
Total Time: 49 minutes 48 seconds
Maximum Speed: 20.3 mph
Average Speed: 13.5 mph
Calories Burned: 386
Fat Burned: 47.1

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