“An unbeatable PR…”

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Shared by Kristina Smedley

Have you ever beaten your personal record and been so pumped…
and then realized you’ll never beat it again?! It’s so demoralizing.

I know, I know… ‘never’ is a strong word.
But, honestly, I may never beat this one. Hear me out…

A couple of months ago I stayed at the San Francisco Westin for a night.

Do you know what the Westin means??

A Peloton bike in the gym!
30min Pop Ride.
Ally Love.
No one else around.

It was perfect. And, I was killing it on my output!

After a while, I was doing SO well on my output, compared to anything I could ever remember doing, that I started worrying that it wasn’t calibrated correctly or something.

But whatever, I was seriously on fire in this ride!

I finished, covered in sweat and out of the water, with a PR of 313KJs!

I left the gym feeling like I kicked ass.
Only a slight memory of a possible calibration issue remained.

Now fast forward to the last month or so.
I’ve been doing 30min rides and watching that PR dangle in front of me.

But not dangling in front of me like a carrot, where I might somehow reach it. It’s more like a unicorn, a rainbow-colored unicorn that’s taunting me and I’ll never actually find!

I’m finishing every ride 40-50KJs behind that PR.
I’m now certain that there was a calibration issue on that Westin bike.

There’s just no way that I’m dying on these rides and am SO far behind my supposed PR. It’s so frustrating!

So, tonight I downloaded all the metrics from all my rides so I can prove my point!

Turns out, I have frequently hit the high 270s, but never more.
A good 25 or so KJs behind this elusive PR of 313.

That ride also had an average of 20 watts greater than the average of my other rides, which are fairly close in range. All the other metrics don’t really add up either.

Justified!
Finally, I can know that something was wrong with the calibration and I can delete that ride and dangling PR from my log.

Everything can go back to normal, within the normal and expected ranges. And now I know where to find the metrics so I can make sure everything stays in line.

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Wow. Those thoughts were actually in my mind tonight.
Is that what I’m all about?

Proving to myself that something was wrong.
That I’m not as bad as I’ve been feeling these last few weeks?

Being a victim.

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If you were thinking at the beginning that ‘never’ is too absolute of a word, you’re right!

Rather than have this be an annoying metric that frustrates me because it’s so far out of reach, I can choose to look at it as a future that I desire.

A future where my strength and stamina, my fitness levels, my determination are enough that I will beat that PR.

And it will feel so good to fly past that darn rainbow-colored unicorn.

So, yes, now I know where to find the metrics.
And there are a lot of them!

Now I know how to watch my trends and notice the 1% daily improvement that I’m committed to.

Now this PR can be empowering rather than demoralizing.

Just like everything in life, it’s all in all I frame it and the significance I choose to assign to is. Nothing more.

 

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