Fun in the sun in February!

Got a great ride in today and it was sunny and dry! Gotta love it. Feeling pretty fresh and got to put the hammer down with Bryant, flying along the highway at at almost 50kph. The power is there, just waiting on the aerobic capacity to return.

I was talking to Dave (mechanic at A-Lounge) and he says that compression makes all the difference with recovery, so I think once my bank account has stopped reeling from the new bike purchase, I'll look into some 2xu compression tights. I don't want to cut any corners when it comes to my health right? haha

Need More Iron

A couple months back I was diagnosed with anemia after my Hematocrit blood test came back low and my Ferritin level was at 12. I've been taking prescription iron ever since and had another blood test done a couple days ago. It's been an extreme exercise in patience having to take workouts easy so as not to tax my system too much. Hopefully these new tests will show improvement and I'll be able to start building into my full schedule. I figure as long as I keep on the iron pills and get all the red meat I can for the time being, I'll be on the up and up.

This morning's workout was a little less than I had hoped for, but considering I was so sick yesterday I just wanted to lie down on the floor at work, I'm not going to complain much :) It was a pretty quick brick alternating between time on the trainer and treadmill, increasing intensity and decreasing interval length. So actually pretty fun.