Sweating it out....

Today was a lighter day, relatively speaking, with only 1 hour of speed work on the bike. I kept my heart rate around 139 bpm.

To do the ride I needed an hour power nap before I started, I was mentally and physically tired when I got home. It's amazing what a power nap will do, it can make you feel like a whole new person on a whole new day.

The ride was good, I could definitely feel a slight soreness in my legs from this weeks previous workouts. As a matter of fact, when I woke up today, I had to shuffle to the bath room and it took a little while for my legs to start moving fluidly. If you saw me this morning, you wouldn't think I was any sort of an athlete.

On the bike, as I watched "American Idol", I was sweating like mad. It reminded me of when I did a "sweat lodge" in Alaska. I was just dripping sweat for the entire ride. The amazing thing was that my normal weight is 177, this morning it was 174 and after tonight's ride and all the sweating, it was 179.

I had a roller coaster of weight change today.