Now I have time to train again so I started the week with 2 passes back-to-back: Cykel 30 and S-Core 30. It was a bit strange because half the room was doing both while the rest were complete beginners who thought the idea of cycling for a whole 30 min was torture. I positioned myself strategically so that I would not discourage anyone. Of course I managed to be next to one of those annoying women who never sweats while I was splashing everything and everyone.

I would not be allowed to call myself a cyclist if I didnt do this pass at max speed, max resistance, max vomitkänsla. I was actually going for about 40 min because I was early and knew what to do with the bike. The fine choice of hard rock music pushed me even harder.

So once I had drained myself of energy, I still had another pass to do. Core training seems appropriate after cycling when my muscles are tired because it is precisely at that point I am likely to lose balance and fall. But I was having trouble following the instructor through the sea of asses in the room so I just looked over to my neighbour who seemed to know what she was doing. This training I need more of...a lot more of.

My balance is not so useless but it needs work. About all I was good at was the plankan but that is just strength and no balance stuff. One leg out in front of you, knee bends, arms still? No, more like arms waving frantically and muscles shaking. All I know is that I will not try yoga because this whole body relaxation really does make you feel like farting. And that is not appreciated in a room full of women.

After realizing that work is going to keep me from anymore training this week, I decided to do the unthinkable...testcykel for some kind of återhämtning. I call it TC for sadists. Gör så här...
1. Run for 13.3km, mostly terrain and many hills.
2. Sit on your ass all of the next day and stiffen up.
3. TC like this before dinner.
10 min warmup
5st 1+1 min intervals
Ingen vila, just up the resistance
5st 1+1 min intervals standing
5 min cooldown
1st XtraAllt pizza

As soon as I stood up, the pain was unimaginable. The last was only half a minute. My mind was full yet again of the voice of that spinning instructor......

Jennifer Brown - Alive
....Gud vad duktiga ni har varit ikväll. Jag är så himla stolt. Ni e underbara. Ni e starka. Nu kan ni lyssna till denna magiska låt och lifta upp. Visst...vi är alive. Take a deep breath...take a deep breath....

I probably remember this because she was cute but mostly because it was such a silly thing to say when half the room had kadens of 20 for the last hour while I was sweating my balls off for the whole 75 minutes.

Please get this song out of my head. Please...

Like Stybar yesterday, I was having a pretty bad day. I could feel my calves becoming stiff after my lovely 10km of running on Saturday so my ambition for tonight was a good old 'återhämtningspass'. I tried RPM which is supposed to be based on intervals and like most spinning passes you can make it as tough as you want. I could feel the benefits of cross right away because this 50 min flew by.

The interval parts or 'utmaningar' if you want were songs 3, 5 and 7. And, no, Song 2 was not our favourite from Blur. =) For the first utmaning we were supposed to choose motstånd 'lite jobbig' which is useless so I chose to go at twice the pace of the music instead. The song 5 intervals were a confused mix of sitting and standing 60/30/15 or something but I decided for a motstånd of 'skitjobbig'. By the time I had things figured out, song 5 was over and it was another slow crappy återhämntning song. Blä. Song 7 was a lovely expression of my growing leg strength but after a very short bit of pain, that was it...no more fun for me...cool down and boring stretches.

So what can I say? Good pass after a weekend of hard training but I need more than this. Wednesday and Thursday at MCK seems to be the best choice.