Originally Posted by jock
Enough of EUROstar and his adventures.
Question without notice for Ed or any other expert in things that hurt. Had a hell day yesterdee, 130km of base over hilly terrain. Today, tired legs over the hills (first 60km) then its into gentle motorpace down the highway with the cagers. The first hill had majic quad burn like never before, then after that all normal, no burn, and can keep pace at target HR. What the hell happened there? How did the pins recover like that?
[edit] that wasn't very clear: burn happened after 60km of hilly stuff, on the first intense little rise on the hwy racing the cagers to werk[/edit].
As I understand it (with my mega history of cycle racing stuff), lactic acid is a wonderful source of energy but not easily accessable. Seems like I read somewhere you gotta be in dire straights before the body starts to convert it........ or something like that.