That's the headline for at least the last month. We've been training for our upcoming tour, which starts toward the end of the month.
We put in just short of 200 miles a couple of weekends ago. That was the culmination of our training. We're now tapering off to get ourselves rested up prior to the start.
So we've put in lots of miles these weeks. We've been riding in the heat so as to try and acclimatize ourselves to conditions we may be facing while on the road. And we'll still be putting in miles in the coming days, though shorter ones.
We've slacked off a bit here and there on our upper-body strength training. For example we missed doing our last session. And prior to that we did some half sessions, i.e., we did only part of the arm toner routine we're using at this point in the year.
But that happens. Sometimes the session has to get shortened or canceled. In this case, we're cutting back a bit on upper-body work so as to focus more on cycling. But in the fall/winter months it ends up that our hardest workouts are usually the upper-body sessions, while cycling (stationary bikes) is less intense.
This is our fitness philosophy. Sometimes you miss workout sessions, and that's ok. Sometimes one form of fitness overshadows another, and that's ok too. Flexibility in our fitness pursuits is what we're after.
We put in just short of 200 miles a couple of weekends ago. That was the culmination of our training. We're now tapering off to get ourselves rested up prior to the start.
So we've put in lots of miles these weeks. We've been riding in the heat so as to try and acclimatize ourselves to conditions we may be facing while on the road. And we'll still be putting in miles in the coming days, though shorter ones.
We've slacked off a bit here and there on our upper-body strength training. For example we missed doing our last session. And prior to that we did some half sessions, i.e., we did only part of the arm toner routine we're using at this point in the year.
But that happens. Sometimes the session has to get shortened or canceled. In this case, we're cutting back a bit on upper-body work so as to focus more on cycling. But in the fall/winter months it ends up that our hardest workouts are usually the upper-body sessions, while cycling (stationary bikes) is less intense.
This is our fitness philosophy. Sometimes you miss workout sessions, and that's ok. Sometimes one form of fitness overshadows another, and that's ok too. Flexibility in our fitness pursuits is what we're after.
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