cycling...

I'm having a hard time dealing with this whole "no running" thing. I know I have to do this to allow my feet to fully heal, and I know its the right thing for my overall ability to continue to be athletic in the future... but its hard. When all else failed, I could run. Until I really got into it, I'd never thought that I could be a runner... but once that click happened... the one that allowed me to just keep running on my one 10 mile day... I realized that I COULD run and that just kicked my ego up a few notches right there.

And now, I can not run. And I have "good feet for cycling." I've been kinda pissing and moaning about that for several months now... hemming and hawing about what to do... its cold, but I have a good bike... a REALLY good bike... and I live in Wisconsin, where it is literally too cold to ride for at least half the year.

So yesterday I broke down and bought a trainer. I set it up in the bedroom and mounted my beautiful bike to it... and I looked at it for a while... and finally set up some track lists on iTunes, loaded up the iPod and climbed aboard.

I spent the first song just spinning up, shifting gears and resistance levels to figure out the trainer and what I could do... and then... something clicked... (vou-ja-de?) and I started pushing... and climbing and jumping and holy crap it was like a spin-class in my bedroom.

I will say that the mag+ is kinda loud at high speed... but bump up the resistance, shift down and climb and its completely tollerable. Its a good thing I only sprint for like 20-30 seconds at a time right now.

So... I'm giving the trainer a thumbs up... for now its in the bedroom, and I'm going to set a goal...

Starting yesterday my goal is to get on the bike every day for 30 consecutive days for at least 20 minutes. Last night was a 45 minute session... I've got more song lists to create... but I'm excited to be moving forward again.

Oh yeah... scale on friday was back to 176... so at least I haven't lost ground... just time...

Still pushing for 160 by December 31.

Posted by Lexy at November 4, 2006 07:24 AM