Superman power!

This week I was looking forward to getting back to my training with 4x4's and 3x8 intervals. I was out of town on tuesday night in Ashland, KY for work, so I took the bike and trainer with me to hit my 4x4's. I noticed I felt really good in respect to my power meter. I was riding 10-15 watts higher than I normally do, but held it there and didn't go any higher cause I was afraid of blowing up. Finished the set, and thought "man I'm feeling good".

Yesterday I hit the trainer after work for my 3x8's. Same thing. Riding at 10-15 watts higher, but didn't go any higher cause I was afraid of blowing up before the set was over. I thought I was riding like an animal.

Well I noticed when I finished my set yesterday and was coasting to a stop my power reading wasn't going back to zero. 'oh no'. This couldn't be. So I immediately jumped off the trainer, loosened the resistance wheel and spun my rear wheel. Sure enough my power wasn't reading zero. This was like shoving kryptonite down superman's throat. It had all been a lie. Like your parents telling you they really aren't your parents....ok maybe not that bad, but close.

I changed my battery in my head unit tuesday before my ride, and I'm guessing my torque needed to be set back to zero then. The date was off too, and all that stuff. So after my shower last night I ran back out to the garage and zeroed my unit out. Everything was back to normal then.

Luckily speed wasn't effected, and I could still check my power from my average speed on my trainer using the Kurt power equation for their trainers. Turns out I was running about 25-30 watts low on each interval. No wonder I felt like superman.

Since I've taken it easy this week....not on purpose though...I'll mark it up as a rest week.

Let this be a lesson though. If it feels like you're not going hard enough, go harder. Because you should be. I should've been anyway.

First race in a week. I'm already excited.