Out relatively early (due to some sundry hammering on a tin roof at 0730) this morning in Pindimar. But it was quite nice being out, there was a bit of cloud cover and it wasn’t to hot. In fact pretty good riding weather. I decided to go into Tea Garden which by my initial estimate was about 20kms, as it turned out it was only 16kms so I carried on to Hawks’ Nest. I’m not sure who came up with the names but there are kind of cute.
And it felt good. For the first time in Tour de Feb it was nice to be on the road. I didn’t push it and I was wearing @KathrynElliott’s heart rate monitor. My maximum heart rate was 179 b/m (which is 100.6% of my maximum capacity) and I spent 76% of my time in zone 5, 20% in zone 4 & 4% in zone 3. According to this I should have only stayed in zone 5 for up to 3 minutes! My maximum heart rate is calculated thus: 220 – age which, given my age is 42, is 178. So something isn’t right somewhere. I’ve got a heart rate monitor on it’s way so I think I might have to do a bit more research on this.
My destination:
Viva la Tour.