8 months after the periacetabular osteotomy, and I'm feeling great! Today was another "first" as I made it up the La Luz hill climb on the road. I did the new Triple Lindy: Tramway from the Casino, La Luz, then up to the Tram and home.
Here's the coolest part...even before my hip started hurting, I usually had to stand in the saddle for most of La Luz. Plus, my typical speed was about 4.3 to 4.8 mph. Today, I sat during the entire climb except for the very last, super steep climb. My typical speed except for that section was about 5.5, dropping once to 5.0 mph.
I managed to wait out the rain for the most part, but got a slightly later start than I wanted. Light drizzle on the way down to Tramway and back up again, but afterwards, nice and dry! Got home and Matt was already starting dinner. What a sweetie, he's done the grocery shopping and made dinner every night this week!
Ride Stats
- Total time: 1:26 hrs
- Ride time: 1:24 hrs (stop light at the Casino, and a short break at the top of La Luz for a drink)
- Average speed: 11.8 mph
- Maximum speed: 46.5 mph (tail wind heading down Tramway)
- Distance: 16.5 miles
- Average heart rate: 160 (holy cow, that's high!!)
- Calories: 618
4 comments:
Average heart rate of 160? Damn thats almost my max.
Yeah, forgot to mention that it actually got up to 180 (a first ever; 175 is about as high as I've gotten the heart rate in the past) on the steep climb up La Luz. If anyone would have been near me and heard me breathing hard on the way up, they would have thought I was in need of some serious medical attention.
I'm going to forward this post to Landis. Just to bolster his hope at defending his yellow next year..
Nice work Jeni, good to see so many write-ups of you riding so strongly
Hey Scott! Loved your blog...got a link to it from my blog now too. I sent an email to Floyd and his trainer, Dr. Allen Lim. Maybe they'll actually find my message in the sea of email they probably go through each day.
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