Another hard day on the trainer.

I intended to do this ride early in the morning, but soon after getting out of bed, I had a migraine attack. I went back to bed and slept to 1:30 in the afternoon. I did not start the workout until later in the afternoon – about 4:30 pm.

I was still feeling the headache as I began the workout, and I do not know if the migraine effected my performance, but I think not.

After a twenty minute warm up, the work out call for an all out five minute effort. I was hoping to average 300 watts for the five minutes, but I fell short. I started strong, perhaps too strong, and I faded during the effort. I ended up with a 265 watt average. Acceptable, but not my goal.

Now that I have completed the two all-out effort tests, I could plug in the numbers into the Beginning Triathlete web site and have it calculate my Critical Power. The number came out to be 244 watts. You can see the report here.

I should note that Joanne and I decided to have dinner at the local Mexican Restaurant, when I had my second migraine attack of the day (a first for me to the best of my memory). Dinner was very painful as the attack was severe. As soon as I got home, I went to bed.