Endurance Training
I’m house sitting fairly close to where I work. Fairly close being 4 miles. The 4 miles isn’t a problem on the way to work, it’s all downhill. It is a problem on the way home when it’s all uphill. And it’s gotta be something like a 6% grade. But I decided that I could do it, I could do it because I needed to train on insane hills because I just really don’t know what I might encounter on my ‘mostly flat’ ride in CA.
So, it took me 10 minutes to get to work. Completely awesome, only a slight breeze and the sun was out. The ride home was insane. I get one block from work and the sky just opens up and dumps rain on me, the wind was something like 19 mph, and it was a headwind of course (because it’s always a headwind out here). Luckily it only rained for like 5 minutes. But the rest of the ride with the wind was tough, it took me 40 minutes to get home. And I pulled a muscle in my leg. But it was good training regardless.