Good ride today. The weather was a little cooler, so once I got my heart rate up I wasn’t roasting. My average went down, I don’t have exacts, but it’s around 18.8 over 6 miles, 12 mile total. The first 6 miles was a disaster, mid-16′s avg, but I felt I was straining to get warmed up. After a short break at the halfway point, I clicked through the tracks in my iriver, found some motivational tunes, and got the flow going right.
I find my biggest struggle right now is my lungs. I feel like my legs are ready & desire to work harder, but my lungs hurt and I feel like I’m not getting enough oxy to my muscles. Hopefully I’ll be able to work through that relatively quickly, it’s growing to be a hindering annoyance.
Another item of note – I was run off the road by a dog today, a combination of the oncoming dog occupying half the burke-gilman, and an obviously blind cyclist moving to pass the dog left me with no room to maneuver, and I found myself in the dirt. No incident followed, and I repressed my desire to shout obscenities, but the desire was there just the same. I wonder if I’m too uptight for this sport. I doubt if the seattle area needs anymore bike-nazis.