Todays plan: Cycling Lactic threshold test
Well the day started out great, I was planning to watch videos of myself and others from my swim class at Harbor as we try and improve our freestyle swim technique. Well Derek was out of commission this morning so I got the opportunity to just sit and visit with my friend and training buddy Laurie. This is the way training should be we drank coffee and ate a blueberry muffin for breakfast while sitting and watching a BodyFlow class. I kinda wonder what people were thinking as they saw after their workout......
Tonight my eldest son comes home for Christmas he will have officially completed college at Luther but will student teach next semester. Like all of our children we could not be prouder but it feels like another chapter is drawing to a close. Hmm, what happens next.
First I am going to go to cycling class and take a lactic threshold test. Your lactic threshold is the balance of lactate production and removal. It is the maximum workload at which you can still nourish your muscles with oxygen before lactate begins to load up in your blood. This test tonight will consists of riding on a stationary bike as hard as I can maintain for 20 minutes and measuring my average heart rate. Last spring I was at 139, and I am guessing it is much higher now since I regularly train well above that especially when I run and distance. This test will help me to reestablish my heart rate zone training that I use during my workouts. (I will put some links here that talk in greater detail about LT and zones).
During the next couple of weeks I am planning to workout less and enjoy my family more. So I am going to post some of the epifanies (if you will) that I had during the past year. Many of them centered around training within specific heartrate zones and things I learned about nutrition.
Update 8:50 pm: I finished my Lactic threshold test tonight and was a little disappointed. I was expecting it to be in the mid 150s and it was 148 my average watts were 201. My body kinda ceased up during the day as it generally does the day after the g-force workout. So I am thinking that last nights workout really affected my test tonight, just did not have the strength to get it done. Oh well live and learn. ....gotta say though I really love the intensity of the workouts the last two nights.
Time for bed....I am really shot.
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Hey Jim,
ReplyDeleteDon't feel bad about your LT results. For what it's worth, I was also about 5 bpm below where I tested just a couple of weeks ago. I was also feeling tired, so I think you are right that that affects the test result. Regardless, don't sweat it (pun intended!) and carry on!