Hard day

ride time: 2 hours @ 145 BPM.
stretching.
Food: chicken pesto sandwich, pasta salad, yogurt with oat squares, apple, V8, FRS chews, and tons of water. I drank a ton of it today.

Legs felt fine, until 1h30 when I started to feel like the ride was wearing me out. By 1h50 I was aching. I don't mean I was feeling the burn, but that I was aching. My joints ached, which was odd, so I just spun it out easily for the last ten minutes.

I don't think I'm getting a cold. Usually my sinuses are the first alarm, and they're fine right now. With a lot of stretching my aching went away. I guess I just haven't pushed that hard in a few months, so maybe I wasn't good at reading my body.

Perhaps it was that I was riding in the morning, which I am notoriously bad at. Waking up at 8:30 and riding from 10 to 12 was not fun. I think I need to get up and move my body a bit more before I try going hard. We'll see how tomorrow goes. I also dove into the workout with no warmup, which might have contributed.

On second thought: I've NEVER ridden for more than 1.5 hours on a trainer. ever. Maybe I just don't know what my body does in that situation. Oh, well, stretching helped and I learned some things:
don't ride within one hour of waking up. Always warm up. drink more while on the trainer, and eat more while on the trainer.

My training plan says that if I ride outside I should increase my ride time by 33%, so maybe this means that riding 2 hours on a trainer is like riding 2.666 hours outdoors, which is an okay ride, especially at a high pace. Also, I pedal the entire time I'm on the trainer, and the road usually has a few spots to just cruise.

Today was hard, but this season is about one thing: Hardening the fuck up.