This past week to get back into the swing of things. I didn't have anymore pain, aches or soreness when I woke up on Tuesday. That's pretty crazy. I attribute this to doing nothing on the weekend and just taking it easy. It's crazy how the body can recovery after trauma like that. I road an easy hour on Monday, to/from work on Tuesday and trained with Josh. I took Wednesday off the bike and did a solid tempo 1.5 hours on Thursday before work. Friday I took off the bike again in preparation for a solid weekend of training.
Yesterday (Saturday)- 3.5 hours. I switched bikes to my TT bike and met up with Leah to do the Bay Lake route. This was for me to test the legs and see how consistent tempo would feel in the TT position. Fortunately no stress to the shoulders, low back and the legs felt good. It seem to take a little longer for my legs to warm up, but once I got the bugs spun out, it was on. I had 2-3x 7-8 mile intervals where I felt consistent and pulling 23-24mph in a zone 2/3. Just holding steady at around 210-220watts. Things felt real good then.
Today I tested myself on the Windermere ride and would be pleasured with the presence of Omar, Sean and Jenn and a few other pro triathletes. ORC (Orlando racing club) has a huge showing and a good number of the usual suspects were out. Once we hit Hartwood Marsh, it was on. The rotation was pretty much Omar, a couple other pro triathletes, and myself. I led up taco hill and had a handfull of guys come around me once we hit the top but they ended loosing contact with the pro guys so I chased and pulled the group back to connect with them. I had to turn off onto Hancock as the majority of the ride continued on to groveland. I found myself being joined by pretty much all of ORC. As we hit the series of climbs on Hancock, I got dropped as the ORC boys started attacking. Thank goodness for the red light at 50 allowing me to reconnect with the group and let me recover. I was back with them and made my way through the guys up Target hill and headed back to Desiree's house chasing, closing gaps and pulling to Winter Garden.
What a ride and what a week back to training. It's been only a week and a half from being hit my a car and my legs are feeling great. I'm able to hold pretty high tempo but now my areas of opportunity are to work on quick explosions and spin ups to be able to cover and repond to attacks. That's what's on the docket for the upcoming week.
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