Saturday, September 29, 2007

Cycling is easy...

...walking is friggin' hard. My hip and calf muscles are blown from walking at Interbike. Lower back is killing as well. Yes, I bet the tourists faired better than I, pain-wise. Lest it be known that Kessel & I walked approximately 10-12 miles on Tuesday, 15ish miles on Wednesday, and another 8-10 on Thursday. Colin what is the TSS score I need to enter for all that shit?
The end result was tiredeness, but not enough to get any real shut-eye on the Thursday red-eye. Got home Friday morning to 2-3 hours sleep & a ton a unpacking and bike work to get some cross bikes rideable.
I finally fell asleep at 11:00 Friday. Two, three hours of sleep in thirty-six. This is where a certain person would be impressed, I slept THIRTEEN straight hours, and woke today at noon. SWEET! Now it is time to go out and see if my 'cross season will happen, or to what extent it will happen.
Coolest thing at Interbike. The homeless guy at the Palazzo. His sign read, "Ninja's killed my father, need money for karate lessons."

2 comments:

Captain Insano said...

So if you assume that walking is steady state and relatively low intensity, we can get a crude "power" estimation using a linear extrapolation of heart rate. If we assume your resting heart rate is 50 at 0 watts and your LT heart rate is lets say, 175 at 310 watts, we can draw a line and say Power = (2.48 x HR) - 124. If you are walking at an endurance pace at 125 bpm, then your "power" would be 186 (Intesnity factor = 0.6) for the walks. If you are walking at 3 pmh or 20 minute miles, that means you spent 3:40 walking on Tuesday, 5:00 walking Wednesday and 3:00 walking Thursday to gived you TSS's of 132, 186 and 108, respectively.

Oh wait, was that a rhetorical question?

dk said...

Holy shit