Bike Commute

Yesterday, I did my bike commute and was a little nervous as to how my legs would respond to my tough ride home, which had 2 sets of 5, 4, and 3 minute intervals at hard effort. Ironically, though, when I got to the Iron Point hill, I was still feeling pretty good and did an interval up the climb. I averaged 360 watts and never dropped below 8 mph on the climb!! Then, when I was approaching home, I did the Serrano hill and made it up in 7:35, which is about 15 or 20 seconds faster than I've ever done it and that was at the end of my hard 1:30 ride. I think the combination of an easier week followed by the Auburn race gave me a little bump in cycling fitness. Or perhaps it was just the easier week? Nonetheless, I was feeling strong.