Sheri pointed out that in 6 weeks we are going to Italy and she has intentions to ride some pretty big cols. And she expects me to be able to keep up to her… not in speed but in endurance capacity. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I’m fast in any way… but I tend to go a bit quicker than Sheri. What I can’t do is go very long, at all. Sheri kicks my ass in the endurance department. Which is why she has concerns. You see if she wants to climb 20km passes in the Dolomites we’ll be riding for 2.5 to 3hrs. And she doesn’t think I will be able to do that. I agree with her.

Anyhow in keeping with the fatman project’s transparency here are my rather pathetic digits from my first two gittin’ back at it trainer rides. EW would call me a wussy for two reasons here, 1) because I’m using a power meter device 2) And well, because I’m just an out of shape wuss and I got no wup-ass.

I’m not losing much weight, but my pants are starting to fall off, so I’m getting leaner and building muscles…. errr or at least I guess that is what’s happeing. I’m down to 192lb.

Today I changed it up slightly by doing 2×10 minutes at a bit higher watts to start 190 for 5min then 200+ for 5min.

Ride Data: 35min, 332kj, 178w avg.

So, here are the digits. I only did 20min. Even when I was fit, I’d start light on the trainer to not go mental. So I didn’t do much time. I felt comfortable between 140-150watts and did two 5min efforts at 190w and then 210-220w. That felt about all I was capable of 200w. I averaged 166w, and burned 199Kjs.

Those are some pretty pathetic digits. I was talking with Christian a few days ago, he’s rolling at like 6w/kg aerobic power right now. If I did the guess-timate math, I’d say I’m at around 2.2w/kg.