Lost all my fitness in 9 days

[Arch]

Hi K, I was only wondering how you were getting on, the other day...

As you've found, your fitness comes back quicker each time. I remember being told that being fit doesn't necessarily make it any easier or quicker to ride up a hill, for example, but you recover quicker at the top.

Also, if your exercise bike is recumbent, it'll be having a slightly different effect to an upright. Not a boad one, it'll still help with the aerobic stuff, it's just a slightly different set of muscles, and getting back on the upright afterwards may feel harder. I found that after two weeks on my recumbent trike on holiday this summer - the upright felt weird for ages....

If you're looking for lights on a budget - if you have a big Tesco nearby, pop in and see what they have, they have some reductions on bike kit at the mo. I got a little set of back up LEDs (a useful little extra lighting for being visible) for £3...

 

[k turner]

thanks for the tip archo will go to tesco. Yes the home one is recumbant and seems to use my lower back muscles and mid and top of thighs and the road bike uses just above my knees. I dont get out of breath on the recumbant at all. Probably not going fast enough although it does say 19/21 miles per hour. I only go between 4 and 9 on my road bike, probably because of the hills. I think maybe the recumbant computer is wrong, I dont struggle at all on it. Cant put the resistance up though because then it messes up my knees and I cant walk for three days and have to sleep downstairs again. Maybe going faster on the easy one will get my breathing going.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Well the fitness came back quick enough, only had to stop twice today and that is in just 10 days.

From Nov 10th or so, after fireworks stop pony will have to go in at night and be let out in the morning, so I will have to start going twice a day.

I am going to start adding in loops now and using home one everyday as well in preperation.

Need to buy lights as well as the ones I got from Lidl broke after 2 weeks.

You were all right the fitness does come back quicker the second time.

Will keep it up now. Dont know what I will do if I get ill and someone else goes for me? I will just have to keep starting over. At least I know it is not going to take 3 months every time.

I will resist the temptation to stick my tongue out and say, "See, I told you so".

It is quite heartening though, how quickly it comes back, isn't it? The loops thing is a very good idea. I've got the feeling that you'll soon be cycling more and more just for the fun of it.

 

[marinyork]

It's normal. Do remember you have more savage hills than a fair few of the people on this forum.