Cycle Trainers and a training breakdown

Its been a challenging week. First I hit a body sculpt class a little to hard on Tuesday. I felt like I destroyed all the muscles in my legs. Today I was able to get 6 miles in on the treadmill, but it took more effort than normal. The second challenge of the week, was I've not been on the bike trainer much, as it being exchanged. The new unit won't be in until Monday or so. So its been a low volume training week, hopefully next week will be back to normal.

Speaking of Bike Trainer, here is my first official Product Recommendation, in the blog. Running outside in cold weather is one thing. But biking outside in sub zero, or even sub freezing weather is another. So the popular way to maintain bike fitness during cold months is with a bike trainer. The Gold standard is the CompuTrainer. Nice if you have the $1500 or more to drop down on it. There are numerous type of fluid and magnetic trainer out there, but after calling a half dozen bike shops, online research, I settled on the BlackBurn TrakStand Ultra. Besides all the recommendations for this, and they are company here in Illinois, the main selling point for me was the Centriforce resistance unit. Its very quiet, very smooth, and didn't have the jerky feeling of a magnetic or fluid trainer. You can learn more about the TrakStand Ultra at these two sites. http://www.blackburndesign.com/trainers.html and http://www.trakstandultra.com/index.html. Also, if you look around, you can find them well below retail. I bought mine online for about $160 less than retail!


The Daily Reading for today, with a very appropriate for the Children we are trying to help, and for the Team World Vision cause is from John 6:35.

"I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst."

Maybe today is the day you feel moved to help me with bringing Team World Vision closer to its goals. Click on the "Donate" button on the left to learn more.

Peace