Day 235

As planned, tried to increase my effort on some 20min intervals.  If I average all 3, then I'm at about the 210W I was trying for on each.  Unfortunately I lost some ground on the first one due to traffic lights, but "made up for it" on the second one.  The second one was a little harder than I meant for, but, since I still managed the 3rd, I guess it's not an issue.  It was very windy today, especially out at Iona, which makes for a funny graph if you look at speed.  At the turn it jumps from around 29km/h up to around 43km/h at the same output.  It might have been the hard intervals last night, but pushing 210 today felt much harder than 205 a few days ago.  We'll have to wait and see if I can keep adding 5W per session for much longer.  For today, 60.21km in 2:06:34 for an avg speed of 28.6km/h and an avg output of 169W (186W normalized).  Overall that's one km/h slower than the last time, and I don't think it's from the wind.  I really made an effort today to keep my slow riding slower than before.  To be honest, there weren't too many people out and nobody past me while I was riding slow, which is usually what leads to me speeding up... gotta try and leave my ego out of it.