Sunday long ride

A glimpse into a long ride...

Some of you are curious as to what makes up a long ride (or any workout for that matter) so here is a little glimpse. The summary is as follows:
Total time: 4:40:54 (should have been five hours - oops)
Heart rate: 107 average / 156 max
Speed: 28.1 km/h avg / 57.3 km/h max
Total distance: 123 km

This ride was cut a bit short, and it was a "very easy ride" per coach Marc. Distance would be considerably longer, if there were no stoplights between here and our destination - well, the destination was a turnaround on the street, hardly a destination, but whatever.

Following this ride, we had a 40 minute easy run off the bike. The run off the bike is just to accustom our bodies to running off the bike. There is a lot to be said about this - when you ride a bike for five or six hours, then get off and try to run... it's not easy (in fact, it doesn't even have to be that long of a ride - just ride your bike for an hour, then get off and try to run - any triathlete will tell you this is one of the harder bits :)

Anyways... that's what our Sunday looks like.

Plus a bunch of eating :)

Hope you enjoyed the "glimpse".