After not having used the home DVD player in a long long time, I thought it would be good to train on the roller while watching my favorite cycling DVD.
30km of serious rolling is about as much as I can bare and that’s a good distance for my Hitachinaka training for June.

Nasu: Summer in Andalusia

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It is the Andalusian section of the ‘Vuelta a España’ bicycle race around Spain, and Pepe Benengeli is in trouble. As his brother is getting married to Pepe’s former girlfriend, Pepe faces a grueling ride in burning hot weather, through his hometown. In the sunbaked hills of his native Andalusia, Pepe launches a make-or-break effort to win the day. At stake is Pepe’s career and, more importantly, his self-respect. All of this, against the backdrop of the majestic beauty of Andalusia’s arid terrain… and pickled eggplants.

By the time I figured out how to play a DVD via the PSP my heart rate was already right up there.
Then the Polar battery was dead on my old heart rate monitor I wanted to use…
After getting the garmin chest strap found, a small warm up on the roller and I was away.

Only problem though was just as I was getting really warmed up the sprint on the video had already started. I missed the race and had to battle on in my own little grupetto.
Not to mind, it’s early in the season.

I got my son to take some footage of me at the 24km mark and from the 28km to the goal line and will upload that to youtube as well providing my stomach is not blocking out the light.

Total work out.
2.5km warm up.
30km Hitachinaka race simulation:
2.5km cool down.

Garmin stats:
Set the options to heart rate and speed if they are not already.

Today’s mileage: 35km
Yearly total: 294.3km
Daily average: 36.785km
Daily average goal: 33.71km

Will post the video clip of me on the roller later… (when nobody is watching).