rainy day training ride

[wobblyRider]

I've been meaning to take the Chris Carmichael's Field Test for a few weeks now and today's a perfect day for it: real crappy out ;-)

It provides a snapshot of your current fitness and a gauge to your progress. Here is a link to the website:

http://www.mastertheshift.com/masters/carmichael/videos/index.asp?videoID=cc3

This link is about the field test but I'd recommend watching the three videos before this  to get a better understanding. All together, the other videos are less than 2 minutes.

The test took me about 50 minutes.  I cut the last recovery lap on the garmin at 10 minutes because my heart rate wasn't falling anymore. So I walked off the last 5 minutes.

I used my Allez, a trainer, my garmin(all you need are tools to measure cadence, average heart rate and a timer),  watched old music videos on vhs on a 21” tv and had a fan on me.

I was surprised to see that my second 8 minute test was better than my first.  Now I have the info I need to know my heart rate for different  types of bike rides.

Here's a link to my test on garmin. Lap 1 is the warm up, lap 2 and 4 are the tests, laps 3 and 5 are recovery time.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/18736348

[The Llama]

go for it man, I'm personally not big into all that, I ride for fun. but have been think of getting a little more in shape (ok a lot more in shape  )