This week has been a recovery week. I have had four hard training weeks in April and following the Iola race I was very tired. Also the semester is about to end and that means things are very busy at school, so this was an ideal time for a little rest. Tuesday I did a recovery ride and then again on Thursday with Monday, Wednesday and Friday off.
Saturday I did a very intense one and a half hour tempo/threshold ride on the road. Then today I went to the trails in the Northern Kettles for the first time this year. They are finally open. All the rides this week were with the 1x9 geared setup. My plan is to keep the 1x9 setup on for the coming week to get some baseline PowerTap data and then go back to the single speed setup next weekend. That way I should be able to compare geared to single speed performance under similiar conditioning.
One interesting thing I've noticed is that with the single speed setup The crank will easily spin backwards several times with an gentle push compared to only about a half turn when I have a deraillier setup. This shows that there is more friction in the geared configuration. I want to see if I can figure out a way using the PowerTap to measure just how much additional friction there is with the deraillier. I have an idea how to do this but we will just have to see if it works.
Back to harder training this week.
Mike
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