What’s your numbers?

Saturday was a great day at the Bicycle Ranch Saturday Ride; more than a hundred riders came to ride.

Joe Friel http://www.trainingbible.com and Ron Arroyo http://www.arroyoracing.com were on hand to lead the group on a 3 hour plus Zone 2 base ride.

Joe gave a presentation on the value of base training, talked about Zone 2 and its importance.

When the group was asked to raise there hands as to who all wants to go on the base ride, just about everyone there was in.

And we off on down the road!

Riding along with the group I heard one of the guys talking about Zone 2 to his friend next to him.

“Do you know where Zone 2 is for you?”

“I have no idea; I think it means you go easy”

“Yea it means, go easy!”

So I thought it would be fun to ask guys what their Zone 2 limits were and how do they know?

Kind of interesting to here how people came up with their Zone 2 numbers.

Well out of the group that all raised their hands to roll out on a Zone 2 Base Ride here are the results of my little sub query of “What’s your Numbers?”

Several had the exact numbers, i.e. 132 is my Zone 2 limit. Plan on being there all day!

However the majority of people had no idea what there numbers were.

Funny most of them had the Polar or Garmin mounted right in front of them.

So I started to ask; How you ever been tested to know where your numbers are?

The majority said no!

The Moral of the Story is real easy; “Get Tested or Test Yourself”

Some people like this simple standardized chart.

Next time you are out on a ride and someone say’s Zone 2, Base or Zone 3 Tempo or anything you will know where your numbers are!