It’s a rarity that I don’t spin on a Saturday even though I had a bike I decided to cancel within the last hour. Not because I was tired or bored but well just because. Learning to follow what my body tells my mind is the path I am on these days and I trust it. Intuition never seems to fail me in fact when I don’t listen its trouble I find.
Not going I may have saved myself an accident or a ticket or better yet increased my desire to spin tomorrow with the Blue Sapphire Carolyn Mellace. I will make a game time decision on that but I think a day’s reprieve is never a bad thing with my addictive personality. My mind says that perhaps a run might serve to break up my one-track obsession. I sometimes ask if I miss running? I have Michael and Constance Korol, Tripp Doherty and Heatherr Feather to keep me thinking about it whether they are in some ultra-marathon or Ironman competition. But those days are gone and I have no regrets. I wish them well of course.
I had a short talk with Dana yesterday and I was relating to her about being seated or standing in session and although KJ hates when we sit I find that I work much harder in the saddle and my knee is the less for wear when the saddle is where my gluteus maximus finds itself. When I first started and I watched some of our female members pedaling in a blur I thought I could never move that quickly. Turns out much later that I could but it always seemed a balancing act. What I also found since we now have those confounded new monitors is that as soon as I would breakaway my watts would drop precipitously below 200. I don’t know why that bothers me but it seems to me that standing takes a more concentrated effort to stay above 200. Could it be that standing burns more calories? I don’t know and why am I even debating it is after all my ride.
A Saturday without KSC is a day without sunshine but I’ll be back in the saddle soon enough.
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