Time is flying these
days. It‘s only two weeks to go until my planed hour record
attempt. The last weeks I did some longer bike rides and longer
pump-only longboard rides on the parking-lot. I did 60 minutes once
that felt easyier than expected. But I wasn‘t riding fast. Still I
had some pain in my feet and my calf. Therefore I swapped the green
springs for lighter red ones in the seismic rear truck. I also
changed my preparation program. Endurance isn‘t the main challenge
for me, even after years of practice it‘s still pumping specific muscular strength. So no more cycling and more pumping with higher intensity instead. During the last week, I did two different
rides with intervalls of higher intensity.
One was in
Stadtwald, a park here in Cologne. There is a loop with mostly good
pavement and no cars that includes a little hill. Occasionally we
skate slalom down that hill. I was riding the other way - pumping
uphills. I did five laps, each about 9 minutes long with 1 minute
riding uphill.
The other ride was
on the parking-lot. Here I did five intervalls of five laps each,
that I rode pretty fast, in the range of 3:30 to 3:40 min. In
between I did a few one push starts and a couple of laps with easy
pace.
During the next 10
days I‘m hoping do some more rides alike. And I‘m hoping this
will help me holding a respectable pace for an hour during my
attempt.
