I'm typing this from gorgeous Petaluma:
A friend is living here in an Airbnb for a month, and I have customer meetings up this way, so I made it a combo fun / work trip. Did a fabulous ride today, only 31 miles but just what I needed on the bike, very steady, not too hard, with a stop for coffee in the middle. Any coffee stop with a carved bear holding an ice cream cone is good with me.
On the training front, rehab is going up and down, I'm increasingly concerned surgery will be needed, which is not out of the ordinary (actually, rehab'ing out of the injury is out of the ordinary). Nevertheless my strength work in the gym is progressing and several lifts are getting stronger each week.
Put a power meter on my bike, this is the one I scored on ebay for a reasonable $800:
Unfortunately, the truth hurts and my power numbers are much lower than the Strava estimates gave me. My FTP is sitting around 185 W and my VO2 around 51-53 ml/min/kg. At least I know where I'm at, and I am already improving my ride pacing and focus. Plus my lifting is not helping and I usually ride in a fasted state, so not ideal for turning out the watts.
Other than that I was at IHRSA in San Diego for a conference, so was busy there but it was quite productive.
It's Holy Week in cycling, which means Tour of Flanders (last week) and Paris Roubaix this Sunday. Here's a handy link for finding live video feeds. Last week I got excellent coverage of Flanders on the Dutch channel. I always did like the Dutch.
Next post I'll share some of the analytics from my Garmin and the power meter. In the meantime, Louie the llama says hello.