Workout: Cardio
Equipment Used: Schwinn AirDyne
Duration: ~7mi/~36min
Driver: Hammerfall - Dominion
Calories: ???
Quality Level: N/A
Observations/Intel: Legs felt surprisingly good this morning, so I planned for a light workout before they changed their minds. I decided that today was a really good day to get some metrics that I'd been planning on chasing for a while and that took me long enough to call it a workout. Air did get somewhat tested at the higher RPMs, but not greatly.
What I did was time how long it took to complete one mile. I have a dial odometer/speed indicator, so it is "soft," as in not super-precise, but it does appear to be consistent, so I just need to understand how it registers. All of this, again, is based on how long to move the odometer a full mile:
Load 1 - 35 RPM - 5:00 ~12MPH
Load 2 - 44 RPM - 4:00 ~15MPH
Load 3 - 50 RPM - 3:40 ~16.667MPH
Load 4 - 55 RPM - 3:20 ~18MPH
Clearly, there is some sort of algebraic formula at work here (which I may attempt to discover, but also, more likely, will not) in terms of higher load inducing more work to gain a correspondingly lower RPM rate. The drop in time from Load 1 to Load 2 is kind of interesting and if the ratio after 2 holds, then it will continue to drop 20 seconds with each consecutive load increase. Now, I'm not sure I can sustain a full mile at anything past 5, but will probably try to take a run at a full mile at Load 5 at some point to see if the expected time frame holds.
Did a weigh-in today, which was 239, -1 from last weigh-in. I don't really have any set number to try to hit before the end of the year, just want to see it continue to fall. I think I will continue to keep a running log of mileage for this year, so now at 720.
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