Planned to ride out to the meeting point for next week's group ride at the café, have a coffee and cake and ride back again, as I was toying with the idea of doing so next Sunday.
Overall it was a pretty uninspiring ride
- missed a turn early on that I've taken hundreds of times in the past, and had to retrace my steps
- started out in 12C and sunny, dropped to 8C with a chilly wind an threatened rain
- legs felt really heavy and quads just seemed to have nothing in them
- decided I wasn't going to have time to make it to the café (about 40km) and have refreshments and get back so cut it short
Ended up at 67km in 2hr 40, 24.8km/h
vs Friday's 55km in 2hr dead at 27.5 km/h
Now I'm not sure whether it's just heavy legs after Friday's session and a fairly stiff fartlek run yesterday, or a lack of recent recumbent riding, or early season malaise or a combination of them all, but I really wasn't finding it great fun out there today. There was certainly no wow factor to the ride. So am I setting my sights too high with an expected comfortable 25km/h average on the recumbent or what?
It may be just one of those less than great rides, but at the moment I'm performing better on the upwrong. Not convinced at this stage that I'd have another 1300km in my legs for either though, which makes an interesting decision point for the 20th Jan.
On a technical front the dynamo set up was working OK and the Garmin was charging from the USB-werk OK on the ride until about 35km it suddenly stopped for some reason. Probably my wiring needs a bit of a check. The T1 was well under control as well, with a total of 55g carbs before and during the ride.