Ignoring heart rate for a moment, as you don't have a calculated LTHR, tell me this: on a typical ride, where do you find yourself--
Score_____Description/Feeling
1. Sitting on a sofa doing nothing.
2. Getting up to make a cup of tea.
3. Easy paced recreational riding, slight feeling of exertion.
4. All-day paced riding, not easy but definitely sustainable. Able to maintain a full uninterrupted conversation.
5. Riding consciously quicker but still able to talk easily.
6. Upping the effort, only able to talk in short sentences.
7. Building on Level 6, you could probably just about respond “I’m fine!” if someone asked you how you felt.
8. Riding hard, you can only sustain this for a couple of minutes and only communicate with single word answers.
9. Almost as hard as you can possibly push your pedals
10. 100% sprint for the line.
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