It's a lower level of HR now and getting more difficult to push the HR up, but surprised that I still managed OK.  This morning (15 Dec), HR finally dropped drastically and very very difficult to push both power and HR.  Most likely due to a very good interval ride last Fri (3 days ago)







Three consecutive days of workout, followed by two days of rest.  Which is totally the opposite of what I do for base (continuous consecutive days with many many workouts per day).



This one I kept going at higher and higher pace as the body warmed up.


I was feeling very tired at first and didn't plan on pushing but midway, felt good enough to start pushing it.  Went for hard intervals and hard recoveries.  Generated a lot of power.

These two graphs are from one of my last few rides before my crash.  A Thursday morning ride (same ride that Serene Lee crashed) while about four of us including Lost Boy Keiser were trying to pull away from the group.  I remember being a little impatient because no one was working much while Lost Boy was ... a little lost.  Finally getting into a rhythm, we hit a bump on the road while heading down Clementi Road area (the section that links into the highway) and we actually passed the area already when we heard the distinct sound of a crash behind so we slowed and some of us stopped while Serene was tended to.  I can't believe it was only 24 Sept when this happened; it seemed so much longer before even prior to my crash on Oct 3.

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It has been a bad year for me..  between April to June, I thought I was never going to be able to ride at a decent pace again.  My heart was giving me scares I've not experienced before, and everything I did (and boy, did I try a lot of things - recovery, more base rides, different diets) didn't help.  I attributed the problem to be work-related.  I destroyed my body the second half of 2008 while working on a project, drinking loads of caffeine related products, having inhumane working hours, many days lasting 6am till 12am and using Coke and other stuffs to keep pushing myself to complete projects.  Over and over and over again.  It was possibly a withdrawal syndrome but boy, was I glad when things started getting better in July.  I could at least start getting back to riding normally (albeit slowly).  So July was a lot of base training and finally getting in shape in Sept.  And then the Oct crash.

I remember I was having a good time at the ride, mostly because I was drafting the first part of the ride.  As usual Changi was harder.  But enough to still sprint for the end.  Was riding back with Kit when the freak accident happened.  Almost two months later, I am back trying to train for 2010.



It is not easy for me to sustain or go above 160bpm normally.  Am hoping to tweak some more of my training this year but it looks like more of the same; the super high heart rate I had for the first two trainings are already going down.

After the first two days of setting new MaxHR, wondering how much longer I can keep it up.  I can generate power now, but sustaining is a bit more difficult.  Without going out to ride outside, it is quite difficult to do base training, be it at higher or lower HR.  Classes are pretty limited to one hours.  The only way is doing multiple classes in a day during the weekends.  With a busy schedule, that may not be possible also.

Easily going above 160bpm and sustaining high HR, but not exceeding 180bpm already.


Trying to generate sustained power by remaining seated throughout the ride.  One of the keys of base training.  There are seven of them.  I can't remember all of them at the moment; when the time comes, I will.  There are also personally developed methods of achieving them.  HR is much lower but I am cranking more power.  Too fast, too soon?

Too many times I'm getting

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I am setting up my friend's list on Twitter already... planning to move soon maybe.  Photos and stuffs will probably still make me stick to FB but I tell you, I'm getting really pissed with it.  Plus I already have Picasa set up as the better version of Photos; the only thing is the tagging of people.  Soon... soon...

Wanda: Wait! He's still a blue-blood! He can break the curse.
Penelope: Max, I know this face repulses you... And I wouldn't, I wouldn't dream of asking you to accept it.
Max: No... No... No...
Penelope: But this isn't me, the real me is inside here somewhere just waiting to get out and you can make that happen and once the curse is broken I'll be just like anybody else.
Max: What if the curse doesn't get broken? What if the curse can never be broken?
Penelope: Then I'll kill myself. I promise, I promise I will.
Penelope: Marry me, Max. Marry me.
Max: I can't.
Penelope: Get out.
Max: I'm...
Wanda: Get out. Get out.

How can something so right be said in such a wrong manner?  It takes the end of the movie before she realizes why he said what he did.  He didn't say he can't marry her because she looks like a pig.  He said he can't marry her because he loves her, but he can't break the curse because he's not really blue-blooded.  It sounds so right now on retrospective and finishing the movie, but it sounded so wrong when he said it at that point.  So many times we've gone through saying the right things in the wrong way.