Coach Trent had a strength spin on tap tonight, which I was ill prepared for. I was expecting the normal ILTs, cadence, and standing drills. Instead, we had some large gear drills, some standing, “bursts” and in the middle, we did two rounds with medicine balls, running steps, and then two laps around the track. Spin was just over 38 minutes and track drills were about 15 minutes. Tough session.
I neglected to bring my running shoes, so I did the track drills barefoot. Fortunately, the track was rubberized so my feet didn’t get abused that much.
The strength drills left me wiped out for the swim. My shoulders were sore and tired from the medicine ball drills and I struggled to get into a groove. I ended up only doing about 1100 yards before I felt I was close to drowning.
My HR profile for the spin is getting better. During one of the early bursts, I was able to get up to 160+ rpm and my HR didn’t jump extremely. However, towards the end of the drills we were doing standing drills while increasing gears and cadence. My HR climbed because I was getting really tired.
Cadence vs HR
