Stay Down!

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Originally uploaded by furryblackcat.

Man, I'm worked over like Sonny Liston. The cool thing about it is I still have more juice after my hardest week of training so far, but still in need of rest. I started doing my L4 stuff on feel instead of sticking to what I though was my funtional threshold power (270 W) and found I could complete the efforts with some ease up around 285-290. I'm going to do some more testing this week.

Jen did the same week that I did and went out and rode a hilly 5 hrs solo on Saturday. Her HR was above 180 for over an hr! She told me she was going hard on the hills. Snap! I'd croak. So Sun morning we got fueled up with excessive amounts of coffee that should be considered illegal when made at that strength. I had woke up grouchy and with a headache from the previous days sugar fix but we still managed to get on our bikes 2 hrs before we normally did last summer on Sundays, 12:30 pm. We went out and rode another hilly 4.5 hrs and I figured, damn this chicky must be cooked! No complaints though. So we get home and have a nice big meal and the only natural thing left to do- sleep. 4pm. Sleep. I haven't napped like that since kindergarten. It felt great. So we rallied and went over to Kaldis so we could both sleep knowing we had our fix lined up in the morning and also headed over to Cold Stone Creamery for 1000 calories of pure delight.... Mmmm. I got the strawberry delight or some shit like that, strawberry ice cream with graham crackers, caramel, and whipped cream. Jen got this Mint Chocolate chip with a brownie and fudge mashed up in it. We managed to convice each other that no, we didn't really need the chocolate covered waffle bowl this time like we have every other time.

It was so freakin hot I couldn't sleep. I turned the fans on, opened the door to the 2cd floor deck in the office, you name it. Aside from taking a bath in ice water I did it all, to no avail. So I did the only logical thing left to do- ate some crit winning cereal- fibers good for sleeping which is very, very serious business.

I slept like a champion, until the freakin tornadoes rolled in again....

Sylvain Springs this weekend. Mama said knock you out bitches.