The last couple of days I've been biking without a speedometer. That meant, to tell if I was working hard enough I needed to pay attention to my body. Easy breathing meant a HR of about 115-120. Moderate breathing with the feeling that I could keep up the pace indefinitely meant about 145-155. Heavy breathing and a feeling that I would have to slow down soon, 160-165.
Today I found the cyclocomputer and I took it along, and fell back into my old habit of judging workout by speed, motivating by trying to keep the speed above, say, 10 MPH on a difficult climb, or 17 MPH on the flats. This did not work. There just wasn't enough correlation between speed and how my body was feeling.
A flat might start easy at 17 MPH, but then get really hard, maybe because a headwind picks up, maybe because there's a slight grade, maybe just because my muscles are getting tired. HR, for me, is the only reliable way to judge a workout.
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Now your cooking with gas... Only other viable option I think is a power meter which I don't have.
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