It is May 5th 2019 and I'm fortunate to be able to have enough balance in my life to train well. Consistency, volume and intensity.
Consistency: 8 out of a 10 point scale.
At this point in time I've been training outdoors four or five days every week. Some days I find myself training outdoors but because of either weather or crazy drivers I cut it short and return home to spend time on the indoor trainer.
Volume: 7.5 out of 10.
Living in the Arizona mountains means that not every volume indicator is in miles ridden. Climbing 750 feet on a 16 mile course ... four or five times in a day ... is much different from my days on the flat Illinois prairie. So `volume' is not expressed in miles traveled. Or, for that matter, is it in feet climbed. Often the default `volume' metric is a combination of hours, miles and feet of climbing. Suffice it to say that on all three vectors (hours, miles and feet of climbing) I've doubled last years' results for this time in the year.
Intensity: 5 out of 10.
And I'm o.k. with that. `Intensity' is the most dangerous factor in that one can overtrain to the point of days of fatigue and increased chance of injury.
Reviewing the past year and a half of `soft pedaling' due to an arthritic knee and subsequent knee replacement surgery I'm on a good track for rebuilding cardiorespiratory endurance and muscle/watt strength. A steep climb these past several months.
