Up & Downs

Basically, the conclusion of Saturday's Evans Cycling event is that I need to train more.
Since very early in the event I felt cramps on my legs and this wasn't good news... and as the event progressed I had more and more cramps... so I can't be happy about that.
This was due to my high heart rate, that it was causing loads of lactic acid on my muscles. Actually I was surprised that I maintained such a high heart rate during nearly the whole race, most of the time it was between 150 and 170 with some peaks of 180 bpm. I thought this would be a good signal, meaning that I have a good cardio condition, but it was causing me big problems.
I also think that I pushed harder than I should, cause I said I would take it easy but didn't and you always pay the price for that.
I also said that I wouldn't look at the time... but I did... I finished in 3 hours 32 minutes, which is an average of 11.9 km/h.

The up side of all this is that I had a massive time during the event and I enjoyed a lot, specially the downhills that were a bit technical with some small jumps, but definitely not easy, and I'm happy I didn't had any problem.

As I said at the beginning of the post, conclusion is that I need to keep on working.

Testing event for Saturday

I've just booked an Evans Cycling event for next Saturday so I can see my actual status. I'm gonna take this first event of the year very easy, so I'll not push to the limit or look at the time at the end. My only target is to get to the end, to recover the feelings on the bike and have some fun.

By the way, on my second day at the gym I have no muscle fever which would be normal after all that time without training... but it's better this way! Maybe it's because I'm following Erin's advice to stretch all the time:

1. Before the exercise
2. After the exercise
3. Before going to bed

Thanks Erin!!!

PD: I'm going for my 10 min of stretching before bed :)