010809 - Bike

Thursday morning I got up before work and spent an hour on the trainer.  It was a really tough workout because of the previous day's lifting!  My legs were very sore and now that I am riding in the big chain ring, my legs were really feeling the burn.  I still do not have a cadence monitor, but I did check my cadence every 10 minutes or so to see if I was in the 90 RPM range.  I found that whenever I did push it to 90 or over, My HR would climb to around 155 and I would slow it down to get back into the right HR zone.  I find that in order to keep my HR below 150 I need to keep a cadence of around 85-88.  Seeing this was supposed to be an active recovery workout, I tried to keep my HR in the upper 140s and ended up having an average HR of 144.