Taking the long way home...

I lucked out yesterday. It's not very often that we get 60 degree days in November and I took full advantage of it with a 60 mile ride. My coach had me scheduled to do a 40 minute tempo interval with a lower cadence during my ride, so I got that out of the way first. Half-way through my interval two roadies turned in front of me, and I was going fast enough that I caught up to them. I felt like a moron passing them because my legs were going in slooooow motion with such a low cadence. And then I felt like an even bigger moron because I wasn't going fast enough to drop them.

As a result they finished my interval with me. One of the guys was on a carbon TT bike, and we were doing that "wheel to wheel" thing where each rider keeps going faster and faster. I hate that but at the same time I could not slow down. At one point I looked down and was pushing 100-150 more watts then what I was supposed to. Needless to say the end of my interval was a lot stronger then the beginning :-) Finally I announced that my coach wanted me to rest, and shot off the back. Once I was by myself I was able to ride at a much more enjoyable endurance pace.

Happy to be riding in awesome weather...
It felt slightly surreal to have such warm temps when all the trees are completely bare. Winter is definitely coming but I hope it holds off for a little bit longer....