Great weather today. After 2 days of cold spell on Tues and Wed, the weather actually hit 60F today. Went to Central Park this morning to cheer for some friends running the Kleinerman 10K. Rode my bike to Nyack and it took me around 1:27 to get to Nyack, it’s around 25 miles 1 way. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/140017531My garmin died half way, so the route on the link is not complete.
Met Dan and Ellen at Rockland county park and got something to eat at Runcible spoon which is a popular hangout place for cyclist. It’s much tougher to bike back on the 9W to the city than to Nyack, my legs are not as strong on the bike and it’s hard for me to keep up. I think running and biking are totally different animals. Not only do they require different sets of muscles but also require different motor unit which is essential to build muscles memory. Read this online “Motor memory refers to recalling specific motor skills. Proper motor skills are required for the muscles, brain, skeleton, joints and nervous system to work together efficiently toward accomplishing a task. Muscle memory is properly defined as the body’s collective ability to memorize and perform well rehearsed muscular contractions”. This sounds like an efficient motor unit will fire the right amount of neurons and communicate to the muscles in the most efficient manner, so that’s probably why marathon training requires such high mileage, not only to train the muscles but the motor unit as well. Same as in biking too I guess.
There are still a lot training I need to do for biking. Got back to the city and went to Daisy May BBQ at 46th and 11th ave to grab a bite, heard it’s one of the best BBQ and it’s actually pretty good. Since the weather is so tempting, I did another 4 loops around Central Park in the afternoon, so in total, probably I rode around 80 miles today. The last loop around Central Park was tough, my legs were pretty tired and my back was aching.
