Today I had planned my first semi-long ride of the season at 07:00 in the morning. However the morning started with my 5 year old boy throwing up and having fever so I postponed the ride until the afternoon. My wife got home an hour early as she was also not feeling to good. She insisted it was OK that I went on my ride so at 16:30 I was on my way.
For those familiar with the area, the route I was planing to take was Alversund - Sletta - Nordanger - Bøvågen - Manger - Alversund for a total of 53.5 km. I did this ride 3 times last year before Bergen-Voss 2011 with a personal best of 2h 26min.
Based on discussions and information I have found surfing different cycling forums on the Internet I have learned, at least that is what I am telling myself, that it is important not to push to hard on the longer rides but rather keep a steady pace (without going to slowly).
I think it is said very well on www.livestrong.com:
"The goal is to build endurance and condition your muscles to stay on the bike for a longer period of time."
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/16403-build-cycling-stamina/#ixzz1qRCZQZix
I did the ride in 2h and 33minutes including a total of 5 minutes stops check tires and eat a banana. So it was 5 minutes slower then my personal best from last 2011. For the last 20km my legs felt very tired and looking at the stats from SportsTrackLive today I see that the last 20km was much slower then I hoped. An hour after I got home I was in the same situation as my wife and son - I was throwing up non-stop. So this was probably not the optimal day for a 54km ride.
I had planned a hill interval session with Beathe tomorrow but I have to skip that until I feel better again, hopefully I will be ok for a hard session on Friday.
Details of the ride can be seen at SportsTrackLive:
http://www.sportstracklive.com/track/detail/BigManChanging/Cycling/Boevaagen/547259#/altitude
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