Last Cycling Clinic Class

Tuesday was our last day of the cycling clinic. Well, that's not quite true. On Thursday we are all getting together for a potluck. So Tuesday was that last day of actual cycling with the clinic.

We had the option of either biking up Tantalus or doing a Turbo Trainer workout. Normally, I'd opt for the outdoors, but I was feeling a bit off, so I went with the trainer. Tantalus might have been the easier option.

The class started out with just letting everyone warm up and then we moved into one-leg drills. 2 minutes a leg! Then you'd get about 30 seconds with both legs, and then 1:45 on each leg. Right around here is where I started to feel dizzy. After I did the right leg, I had to stop, get off, and go sit for a bit. The feeling passed after a while, and I was back on in time for the last round of the drills (1 minute).

Next up was a pyramid drill. We went in chunks of one minute, two, three, four and five minutes. The odd minutes were at 100 rpm while seated. The even minutes we had to stand. So for the three minute segment, we sat, and for four minutes we stood. It was pretty brutal. I've never stood up on a bike for that long. It's surprising how hard it is. Fortunately, by now whatever icky feeling I had before had completely vanished, so I was really able to push it.

After this, we did various times at different paces. I think this part was fairly random. I guess I was pretty tired by then because I honestly don't remember much. All I know is about an hour after we started, it was over, and the bike clinic was no more.

So now what? I've signed up for a triathlon clinic, but I don't know if I really want to go that route or not. The logical side of me says "Why not?" I see other people of roughly my current athletic capacity doing them, so if they can, why shouldn't I? But the emotional side is a bit whiny. I'm a little reluctant to try yet another new thing when I don't feel I've mastered the others. I'm also slightly concerned that I'll find my swimming is worse than I think it is.

I think my real problem is just laziness. I dread the thought of giving up sleeping in on Saturday mornings for the next three months. The week night workouts don't really phase me, but that Saturday is a huge hill to get over. Yet, I know if I don't have a group holding me responsible, I likely won't get out an exercise at all, and I don't want to lose what fitness I've attained thus far. I know what I need to do, I just haven't talked myself into it yet.