Weekend roundup

Saturday BIKE 80 mins, about 18.5 miles
Sunday RUN 57 mins, 5.1 miles
            BIKE COMMUTE 9.5 miles

The new Garmin is generating some data, lots of it surprising. First off, let me say that this weekend was AWESOME weather -- in the 70's! Sunny wonderfulness. I had to work both days, but made the best of it.

Saturday. I did a 1hr ride to work including 2 of my 5-mile loops in TGP. I was surprised to see that in the 60 mins I only got 14 miles?! Peak speeds in the park were 18 mph, but they weren't sustained. I didn't track laps, that would have smoothed the data and fixed the averages. The ave HR was 107, max 162. Moving time 1:04. So a surprise in how my bike speed isn't smooth yet. Set that goal.

Sunday was a foggy morning run around the LP area. As has been the norm, the HR climbed and climbed and around the 20 min point it was 160-170. I was able to mouth-breath, so I know that wasn't right. I tried turning the HR monitor off, I'd read that doing that can help. Tried it once, HR went right back up. Tried it again, and FINALLY I got numbers like I expect: low 120's. The HR graph shows the last half of the run completely different.

I have the run set to lap at 1 mile: Pace  Ave HR  Max HR and Ave Cadence
  PACE  AVE  MAX  CAD
1  11:30  137   164    167
2  12:15  145   173    163
*3  11:35  126  176  165
4   10:55  120    138   168
5   9:35   125    132   171
5+ 9:34   130   132    172
(this is the lap I reset the HR monitor)

The ave run cadence stayed in the 165-172 range, even as I sped up. So that's a  nice set of data FINALLY. Once I reset the it seems I stopped what might have been a cadence lock? It was a simple fix.