Forget the numbers

Once in awhile you have to leave your devices at home.  Forget the GPS, forget the heart rate monitor, forget the power, forget your interval timer and portable lactate measuring kit.  Who cares how far you ride, who cares how long it takes you to run your normal route.  Heck, don’t even count your laps in the pool.

All this stuff is great, and don’t get us wrong, we use them (maybe not the lactate thing).  But, on more than one workout during a week we will forget all the numbers and just go workout.  We look at the clock when we leave, and look at it when we come back.  Sometimes not even that.

This gets you in tune with your body and allows you to really enjoy the training and realize the purpose of it -simply to make you feel good and improve yourself physically.  Do you really need to know that your avg HR was only 140 for that 5 mile stretch?  Yes, on some occasions you do, but once in awhile it does not matter.  We would even be willing to say that MOST of the time it does not matter.

Try it some time.  Go out and ride your bike like you’re a kid with a sucker in their mouth.  Go run up to the top of that hill you see in the distance – how far is it?? What if I go anaerobic?? Who freaking cares!! Just do it, you’ll get fitter no doubt.