Gilmet’s Weblog

Tonight I attended the 8pm spin class at Michael McCormack’s M2 Revolution. The class runs on Cycle-Ops’ Cycleops 300 PT. The class runs about an hour during which Michael coaches the class through a series of intervals based on personal benchmark wattage (average sustainable wattage over two ten-minute time trials). The class can be pretty killer — I didn’t have a problem pushing myself since I knew it was only going to last an hour.

I’m not sure how to record this kind of training effort. I was able to do my 90-100% intervals around 270-300 watts. I’m not sure there’s much point in reporting my average watts (even if I knew it) for the entire session since output is so inconsistant while doing intervals. In the interest of keeping a yearly mileage goal, however, I’m going to estimate that the distance traveled for an equivalent performance on a properly paced one hour time trial would have been about 25 miles.

I have some ideas for a few web applications that I want to expose on this site (beyond the run-of-the-mill spreadsheet). If anyone has any requests, I’m all ears.