New bikes for the squad (and a short training ride)
Even with Rochester Flyers bike budget triple what it was last year, we couldnt afford to outfit the team with bikes. So I made a special trip to Italy and picked some up. Those black Ridleys should match our uniform ok. (I refuse to call it a kit. No matter how euro it sounds.)
Weather was actually ok for a nice outside ride Saturday morning. I'm attempting to use TrImp values to monitor my training. I'm actually still trying to figure it out. There's a TrImp Plugin for SportTracks that helps to figure out what the TrImp values are for an activity, week or group of activities.
What is TrImp? TrImp stands for Training Impulse. I know that don't mean much. But what it is, is a value of intensity (defined by heart rate) multiplied by duration. I don't really know the formula used. But I think it's a modified formula that weights higher intesity so that a half hour at 100% intensity would give a higher score than a full hour at 50%. For example my ride on Saturday had a TrImp score of 140 while the Expresso indoor rides average a score of about 50. Individually these numbers don't mean much. But what I'm gonna do is get a weekly TrImp score (the values of each individual activity added together) and increase that on all my build weeks. At least that's the plan. So last week my TrImp score for the week was 230. (I know... a pretty weak, week score.) So if I can get over 300 for this week would be an improvement.
Since I don't really know what a TrImp score for a summer build week looks like, I don't really know what I'm building up to. But I'll get to figureing that out later.
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Monday 02/18/2008 | 08:35 am
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