Time to focus on nutrition. This morning I went out for a nice flat 1.5 hour bike ride. I tried filling up a gatorade bottle with 2 scoops carbo pro - for a nice 350 ish calories. It tasted mostly like gatorade, though I could tell it had something in it. Focused on trying to finish the bottle, and trying to go fast. I averaged over 15 mph on the bike ride, which felt good (even though it was flat) and finished most of the gatorade. I may try a few more powders just to see, and now i need to try to find hte gatorade endurance for more electrolytes.
On my way back, 3 miles from home I stopped in at Speedy Reedy to try and make my bike computer read my cadence. As soon as they looked at it it started working (I felt stupid). And I learned I pedal way too slow. I was averaging about 70 rpm, and I should be at least 80. So my few miles home I kept it above 80, and wow it feels fast and not good. Wish I'd discovered this sooner in the training, but I guess I now have like 5 weeks to get comfortable pedaling faster. Hope there is time... sigh.
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