Slow It Down? 🐌
Slow it down, when I’m trying to get faster? Yes, indeed. I think I need to.
Much as I’ve read about getting faster, I ought to know that the spaces between very hard efforts should be easy. VERY easy; that’s when you’re recovering for the next hard effort. If you aren’t sufficiently recovered, you don’t do as well when you try to go hard.
I suspect that I’m not easing up nearly enough. Although I shift to larger (aka easier) cogs between my hard pushes, I sometimes stay on the big ring, as I did this morning; and I was still moving at 11 mph. Ergo I need to slow it down, so I can shove a harder gear when it’s time for it.
Hard Enough? 😓
For that matter, are my hard efforts really hard enough? Maybe I should wear a hard hat?
Yeah, I know. Bad joke. But I don’t need to push a gear so hard that I develop knee problems. Beginning cyclists especially need to be cautious about that; but I’m hardly a beginner. Not with tens of thousands of miles in my legs!
In addition to my “force” efforts, I tried to simulate a steep climb this morning; but I couldn’t get it right. Are my gears not hard enough? Or am I actually stronger than I think I am?
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