Nine Days

For those of you who live nearby, you know that it has been over 100 for the past week or so. The temperature has finally started to come back down and I hoped back on my bike yesterday to ride. I managed 7.78 miles without too much trouble but I had some people I was supposed to be meeting further in town so I hoped on the MAX. It wasn't a bad ride, fairly flat, but I could tell that I have definitely lost some of my conditioning. I logged the ride and found that I have been off of my bike for nine days total. I tried riding the trainer I bought but the AC in my house doesn't cool it down that well and it was just too hot. It is also harder than just riding on the road, on the road you can coast down a hill or for a ways on a flat. There is no coasting with a resistance trainer, you stop pedaling and the wheel stops. Next time the temp gets too extreme I am going to suffer through using the trainer anyway. The ride to work this morning was hard, and definitely not one of my best elapsed times either.