Toasted on the Trainer

Monday night was awful at my place. Cold, windy and raining so I hit the trainer on the back deck which has a nice awning over it.

I did 6 x 5 minutes at 95% of my maximum heart-rate with 3 minutes between efforts. I hit 184 on efforts 5 and 6 which is darn near to pukesville for me. By the time I warm up and cool down from this it's 75 minutes on the bike and I was well and truely ready for a good dose of opti and a jam sandwich.

I find it easier to hit it really hard with something loud and fast in the earphones of the iThingo. Muse - Hysteria and Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench are high on my list of inspirational grind at present.

it's holding me, morphing me

and forcing me to strive

to be endlessly cold within

and dreaming i'm alive

Now my legs hurt properly.

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