I’ve been struggling my way through an excellent book (in French) on cycling recently and have started fine tuning my training a little. Today I went out for a ride to work on my endurance base, or at least that’s my understanding of what the book is telling me. Cycling is an endurance sport, first and foremost, so it is natural I suppose to have to work on this part first as well, building from a solid base. It’s also the way to lose weight, so I’m all over it!

It seems I’m not totally geared up yet for all this 21st century training yet, since I don’t have a heart monitor. I needed to keep my heart rate at around 70% of my max, so there I was, fingers on throat every 15 minutes or so, checking to make sure I didn’t go over. There must be an easier way…

The ride was 3 hours long, which is the minimum time recommended (gulp) and I had a wonderful day for it. Here are some pictures from the road.