Easy listening

Had another good session last night. Pencilled in a tempo roller session in the 240W or so range.

Went very smoothly, I averaged 220W/235NPW for the whole workout with the work portion being 70mins at 240W/245NPW. What was pleasing was how easy it felt. One indicator was that my HR averaged a very comfortable 145bpm but maybe a better one was that I was able to listen to a couple of "In Our Time" podcasts plus the latest "Material World"* . The fact that I was able to concentrate on these programmes is a pretty good indication that I was not finding the workout too hard.

* covering such diverse topics as tectonic plates, the Gaia "hypothesis", Rudolf II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_II, systems biology and the fact that we are just about to end one geological epoch and start another http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene (aside on this: interestingly the reason for this is apparently due to the fact that humanity has now left a mark on the planet so traces can be found in the geological record (nice segue here also to Gaia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesistouched on earlier. The contributors seemed to intimate that this was a bad/sad thing. I don't get this I am afraid. I think the fact that humans have left a mark on the world is overall a good thing, the only alternative being that of no humans in the first place.)