Mountain Bike 1:49:57 [3] 11.5 mi (6.3 mph)
ahr:133
Pine Haven ride. Plan was to warm up and then do a 45-60 minute Tempo ride on non-technical rolling hills and then ride to get a total of 1:45.
I picked Pine Haven because I thought that the trails were less technical than they were - I hadn't ridden there in a while. I knew the 2-tracks were there as a back-up. I warmed up on the single track and realized it was way too tight and twisty for a tempo ride.
So, at 16 minutes (AHR 122), I hopped onto the 2-tracks and started the "tempo" portion of the workout. It didn't go as well as I had hoped. One plus was that there were some soggy, soft sections of the trail that slowed me down as if I were going up a hill - sort of. I thought the 2-tracks were more straightforward than they were and I was slowing down a lot to check the map, decide where to go, etc. A lot of the downhills were too steep to actually pedal down. I had to choose between hills and non-technical. I struggled to keep the HR up in the tempo zone. I ended up going 1:11 on the "trying to tempo" section with an average HR of 138 because I was going too slow on so many parts. For cool down, rode single track, AHR was 124.
Note - Pine Haven is in ROUGH shape - trees down on single track, significant erosion on the 2-tracks, plants grown too close in to the trail. The 2-tracks are not set up well - they go straight up and down the hills. The "big hills" are so steep that you can't even ride up them. A bit unsure about the distance since it was based on my watch in the woods and I didn't notice that my transmitter/magnet weren't lined up properly for the first half of the ride.