Two gentle short rides over the weekend (on Scottie between home and Muhltalbad with Robbie) still hadn't sorted my legs out from last Wednesday eve, it seemed. Too lazy yesterday even to swim more than 400m.
So dragged my sorry arse out tonight for a gentle ride to try and get my Kreislauf running again. Late leaving work and shopping so not much time so did the good old Heinerfest triathlon circuit from Ostbahnhof to Bollenfaltor via Rossdorf and Nieder Ramstadt and a bunch other places in between.
Once I got going I felt ok, but didn't push too hard. I think warm ups are becoming quite important to me - I seem to need to work extra hard to push myself up to another energy level at which I can then settle. This course is so hilly and bendy it's difficult to hold a steady pace - or it was today anyway. No wonder they've replaced it in the triathlon with a boring straightline flat route - what a shame, that's what made the Heinerman fun, now it's completely boring.
On the course I recorded 39.3km in 70min = 31.2kph av. About the same as my times from 12 years ago (used to aim for 32kph) not bad considering I wasn't flat out.
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