2010-08-24 Workout
Today’s Workout: Heart Rate vs. Time
Time: ~ 1 hour
Distance: 12 miles
Location: Indoors at Global Ride/Cycling Fusion HQ
Bike: Keiser M3
Rode with Mark D and Sharlotte and Gene to a Global Ride DVD of the Pittsburgh Dirty Dozen Ride today.
2010-08-22 Workout
Heart Rate vs. Time
Length: ~50 minutes
Distance: 11 miles
Another light, indoor 11 mile workout to avoid going too far over the Cycling Fusion targets for this week.
2010-08-21 Workout
Heart Rate vs. Time
Length: ~50 minutes
Distance: 10 miles
A light indoor 10 mile workout today since I’m trying to hit certain amounts of time in each heart zone per week as part of my Cycling Fusion workout. And Thursday’s Birthday Bike Ride (see photos) used up most of my upper heart zone numbers.
2010-08-19 Workout: Great Allegheny Passage Trail
Today’s Workout: Great Allegheny Passage Trail from Ohiopyle to just beyond Harnedsville, PA and back.
Time: 3 hours, 25 minutes (with stops at the turnaround and Confluence)
Length: 28.2 miles
2010-08-16 Workout
Heart Rate vs. Time
Length of Workout: 1.8 hours
Distance: 18 miles
Trail: Butler-Freeport Trail from Sarver to Herman and back.
It’s a slight uphill grade all the way from Sarver to Herman… heck… all the way from Freeport to Herman. So I was in heart zone 4 almost the whole way to Herman. It has turned out that I have no problem getting into and maintaining heart zone 4 on an upright bike like my trail bike or the spinners at Global Ride. It’s only on my recumbent stationary bike, a NordicTrack SL710, that it’s a chore. So maybe I’ll get a trainer to workout on my trail bike indoors.
2010-08-13 Workout
Heart Rate vs. Time
Length of Workout: 1 hour
Cycled at Cycling Fusion HQ today with Mark D (@borkware on the twitter) and his wife Sharlotte. Much better to do the workout with friends… and music. And it seems like less work to get into the upper heart zones from the upright spinning bike than my stationary recumbent. Noticed this out on the trails, too.
Today’s Workout
In an attempt to be held accountable by random folks out there on the tubes in my mission to get fit, I’m going to start posting the graph of my heart rate during my daily workout (well… 4-6 times/week). Of course, one of the things about being a software developer is that I could write a short ruby script that could generate thousands of fake graphs that look similar to this every day. You’ll just have to trust that I’m not that much of a loser. 
Length of workout – 55 minutes.
