Well, it was drier today than yesterday, but you can't really call it dry. I was scheduled for a 3 hour ride, mainly endurance effort with a bit harder on the climbs. My legs felt a little tired so I mainly kept to just the endurance effort and kept the climbs a little easier than prescribed. After the first couple of miles I ran into a pretty steady rain shower that I rode through for about the next 10 miles. Once I'd climbed up and over one of the big climbs on today's ride, the hill I use for climbing repeat sort of things, I was out of the rain and the pavement was dry. It stayed dry for most of the rest of the ride until I started up the last big climb when it started showering on me off and on.
And the wind started to blow pretty good. It is an odd sensation to feel your front wheel being pushed by a 20+ mph crosswind. It almost felt like someone was grabbing the wheel and trying to turn it. The wind wasn't steady, which made it worse as I would adjust to the heavy wind and then it'd ease up and I'd tend to swerve a bit into the wind. One thing about it, I definitely got some experience in riding in less than ideal conditions.
As I noted above, my legs felt pretty tired today so I took it a bit easier than planned. In looking at my data for the past week, I noted that my TSS score for the week was around 830, about 80 points higher than my last heavy week. I'm thinking that it is maybe a bit too much intensity as this is only the first week in my 3 week block and I'm already tired. So I think I'll need to adjust my schedule, taking out one of the interval days and replacing it with a 90 minute endurance ride instead. Something not quite a recovery ride, but not a hard day. I'm not sure at this point how I will do on my 5 hour ride tomorrow, but I can bet my legs will definitely be tired.
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