The proof is in the (bread) pudding
Thanks to an astonishing new discovery*, I leapt out of bed at exactly 0700 this morning, and went on to crank out a Sunday morning training ride that wasn't far off five hours.
I've uploaded my heart rate graph – the session was four hours, 53 minutes in total, at an average heart rate of 138 beats per minute. The big peak/trough at 2hrs 30 or so was the climb up the Box hill 'zig zag' followed by a cafe stop at the top, where I rewarded myself for an atypically early start with a coffee and a huge slice of bread pudding (the fact that my heart rate barely dropped below 90bpm as I was wolfing it down bears testiment to its stodginess). As you can see, it's a hilly old route, but it was a great morning – cold and damp, but once I'd climbed above the mist, the views over the Surrey hills were glorious.
*Keaka Jackson's Power Controller - a nifty bit of software that turns a Mac (a G4 PowerBook in my case) into an alarm clock, waking the computer and fading in any playlist you like from iTunes; I bounced out of bed to James Holden's 'One For You' today. Mornings will never be the same again.
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