Back home, and back on the trainer

Fun's over.  After a fun few days in Crested Butte, we're back in the real world and getting ready for work in the morning.  I enjoyed hitting the trails in Crested Butte, but today I took the morning off so we could head back to Denver.  We packed up our stuff and stopped for breakfast in CB, at the Paradise Cafe.  Then, a long drive back to Denver.

After a haircut, laundry and a very small grocery shopping trip, we heated up a few tamales for dinner.  Then, since I didn't get in a ride this morning, I decided I needed to get back on the trainer this evening.  I opted for a hard workout, Spinervals 32.0 - Extreme Threshold Training.  I just did this workout a couple weeks ago, too.  It is a really hard ride, good for power and anaerobic threshold training.  I didn't feel that good during the ride (if you're doing it right, you should definitely not be feeling good during this one), but after uploading my data, I actually improved on my previous rides with this workout.  Comparison of three workouts is HERE.  As you can see, my average speed was up and my average pace was down.  And I managed to burn fewer calories, too.  But that probably means I wasn't working hard enough.  And those results don't even account for the minute I had to jump off the bike when my chain fell off for some reason.  I quickly got it re-seated and was back moving again shortly.

Looking forward to a nice week of riding the bike to work.  I'll need to drive on Wednesday because of a meeting, but should be able to ride every other day.  And the kids are out of town this week, so we don't need to be carting them around after work, which makes things a lot less hectic.

Well, that was a tough workout, and I need to get to bed.