{"id":832,"date":"2007-03-29T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=832"},"modified":"2007-03-29T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T00:16:08","slug":"my-new-club-willesden-cc-turbo-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/my-new-club-willesden-cc-turbo-training\/","title":{"rendered":"My New Club – Willesden CC & Turbo Training"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s official(ish).. I have joined a new cycling club. Willesden Cycling Club<\/a> willingly accepted my ?20.. even if it wasn’t one of the new notes.<\/p>\n

The details are sketchy: On-site with a client at Reading, no lunch, but scoffed a portion of the ?13 of “sweeties” that Sarah bought, whilst sitting for an hour on the train. Thought session started at 18:30 and arrived home at 18:15 so was just going to rock up and pay the membership. Discovered later the session starts at 20:00. Had time to drink a glass of water and chew the end off a block of cheese (Sheila would be proud) in a half-witted attempt to stave off the sugar-crash I was likely to be suffering soon. Changed, remembering to fit the vital Knee-Warmers of Everlasting Vital Signs<\/a><\/b>, and road off into the sunset.. to Wembley and the clubrooms where the punishment is dished out. <\/p>\n

A picture speaks 1000 words so here’s my heart rate graph for the session – translation? 1000 x “pain”:<\/p>\n

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For comparison, here’s a HR graph of a Glenvale Criterium from 2005<\/a><\/p>\n

The first time my HR has gone over 200bpm for a long time methinks and over 26 minutes (almost hald the session) in the red! Now I know I was pushing hard, to impress on that first magtrainer date and all, but damn! I must be unfit. Of course I’ll put it down to having a body built like a Honda S2000 – “revs out to 9 grand mate!”. By the time I’d joined and chatted about titanium Colnagos and custom TT frames it was 22:30. No dinner, no breakfast and a late lunch.. I’d say I’m feeling it but surprisingly I’m amped, if staggeringly dehydrated, still.<\/p>\n

It’s good to be back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s official(ish).. I have joined a new cycling club. Willesden Cycling Club willingly accepted my ?20.. even if it wasn’t one of the new notes. The details are sketchy: On-site with a client at Reading, no lunch, but scoffed a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}