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Am I ready for this week?

Have I ever ready for "the last week before the end of year holiday" week? Hmmm...
I sure started out right, or wrong depending upon your viewpoint. 4 hours of mountain bike riding. Well, four hours out on the trail. That doesn't mean I was riding all that time though. My heart rate monitor says I rode 2 hours and 23 minutes but I noticed several times (at rest places) that I had paused at the last stop and forgot to start it back up. So, some time is not included and I estimate I missed about 40 minutes of riding.
Even still, the unit tracked some interesting things. My maximum heart rate during the ride was 168 beats per minute. My maximum heart rate (all out, 100%) is 174 bpm. I'm told you should never exercise at a rate higher than 85% of max for much longer than a few minutes. 168 bpm is about 96% of my max. During my tracked ride I had a total time OVER 155 (89%)bpm being 45 minutes. That seems way too high and way too long considering how much I have NOT been exercising lately. It was a fun day but, during the ride, I had little idea my body was working so hard. (I heard the 'over max' alarm but never looked to see how high it was)

The place is called Alafia and it is a really great state park with some beautiful mountain bike trails.

So what does this have to do with "this" week? I don't know. Maybe that's why I'm not ready for this week.

posted by Kev @ 12/19/2004 11:30:00 PM