02/19/2026 Virtual Ride

I was originally going to get out for a ride, but the weather forecast predicted rain coming, so I switched to an indoor ride instead. I picked a very flat route, Brussels Town Square, and did four laps in a little over an hour. Had to psych myself out not to stop at about 15 miles, legs were feeling it from the constant effort. But I got to the end of the fourth lap successfully. Here are the times for the four laps: 15:24 (162 W, warming up at the beginning, also turned the fan on at some point), 14:38 (181 W), 14:48 (178 W), 14:40 (179 W).

Avg speed = 20.3 mph. Total mileage = 20.5 mi

Avg power = 175 W. Weighted avg power = 177 W

Total elevation gain = 0'

Avg cadence = 82

Avg heartrate = 132 bpm (Coospo)

Relative Effort = 32

Training Load = 64

Intensity = 80%

https://www.strava.com/activities/17451820400

Made a minor adjustment to my Fuji bike when I was done, also changed the battery on the remote for the Bose SoundDock. Then I went inside and had some toast for breakfast. Ann had gotten up early and gone downtown for jury duty, so I had the house to myself. Watched some TV, then through the day I worked on adding the functionality into my cycling analysis program to read in FIT files and display the data. It took some time to figure out how to convert the columns to usable data, then I had to try and map the data from the FIT files to the appropriate lists and dataframes I had set up in the program. Was partially successful at the end of the day, I had numbers for the main output statistics, but they aren't yet all correct. Ann and I watched some TV in the evening, and I also read a fair amount of the book Easy Money through the day and evening.