Took it easy yesterday, and planned to take it easy today. Heck, I thought I did.
It’s been another baking hot day today. Apparently this is with us until Monday. I missed my opportunity to ride early this morning and almost didn’t bother at all. But I’m out tomorrow morning (funeral, got to wear a suit… in this weather), and so if I didn’t ride now then I might not get too until Saturday.
So I went out in just a jersey. First time for everything. Well, I had my bib shorts on as well. Aside from the nudity issue, I need the padding.
Amazingly I didn’t see a single other roadie out. I mean I wasn’t out for long, just the 40 minutes, but I was amazed not to see … anyone. It was really pleasant out there, not too hot, sunny still but not glaring or burning. Thought it was humid. So humid. Sweaty.
I had no plan, and barely a route in mind. So off I went, just with the idea of doing 30 minutes, or ideally 20km, and then heading home.
Well, not a huge right lot to report there. I definitely didn’t do a recovery ride, but I can’t say I smashed myself.
I have set my Garmin back to 228w as my FTP, as per my recent FTP test result. And as I was out, the Garmin reported early that I was at -4 on that… oh, I forget the name of the metric. Performance something or other. Anyway, I figured I was taking it easy so no big deal.
And then I get home and I get this:
So I mean I know I did bad on my recent test, but … what?
OK, confused.
Aaaaanyway, time for a bath.
