Spinning

For the last few weeks, I've been tinkering around with my nearly decade old bike, putting it up on what they call a bike trainer. I bought the bike trainer a few years ago after watching Lance Armstrong win yet another Tour. I wanted to jump into some triathlons at that time and wanted a new bike. My wife wasn't convinced that I'd stick with it. We settled on a compromise – the bike trainer. If I used the trainer for a while, then we'd look into buying a fancy new bike.

Turns out my wife was right, I went back to just running and the bike trainer just gathered dust.

Well it finally came in handy when I wanted to get some quasi bike training or my version of spinning.

To be honest, I have no idea what I'm doing – I spend about 30 minutes to 45 minutes just pushing pedals. I think I'm pushing pretty hard at a decent turnover…but since I have no computer on the bike – I really don't know.

What I do know is that when you begin biking for the first time in a long time – stuff gets numb that you really don't want to get numb.