Never one to be defeated, I took on Stage 2 of the TdF again today and I nailed it!! Hooray for me!
I may have had to have a couple of wee rest breaks in the middle... and near the beginning... and maybe near the end... but let's not dwell on that. I did it in 39 minutes and 40 seconds.That is a huge 4 minutes and 22 seconds better than yesterday! Again hooray for me!! Shall I work it out as a percentage improvement? No, maybe that would seem a little bit obsessive...
So I proudly wrote my stats in my training log... 111.6km this month to date and a total of 191km since I started training.
I also proudly told Paul that my average today was 106 watts. Which I thought was totally awesome... can you guess what happened next? He said that is equivalent to a single light bulb. You know one of those old lights. How depressing. Then he said it was equivalent to two of our kitchen lights. For 39 minutes and 40 seconds. I know right!! Good on you Paul.. Have a nice day!
He then compared me to a horse! What was he thinking?? Well maybe he didn't really compare me to a horse, but pointed out that 1 horsepower equals roughly 750 watts, so I am equivalent to roughly 1/7 of a horse... I wonder which bit??
This apparently means that my pedaling would run the pool pump at approximately 1/7 of its required output. Again for 39 minutes and 40 seconds... and render the pool unclean. I may as well suck the water through a straw he says. Good grief... where did I find him? Now he is explaining that the chlorinator would not be working... La, la, la, la...
He has asked me to tell you all that I have his full support in my adventure!! And he did get my Big Jam Box and come down and train with me. So all is good!!
Oh dear... I need a bex and a little lie down again!
AND to top it all off... Josie is in Bali sipping cocktails! It is soooo lucky I am not bitter.
Anyhoo, better go and pack. Another plane to be caught.
W xx
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