Last night, Farmboy and I went to see the Borat movie. Very funny. I like. However, we were a bit traumatized by the wrestling scene involving two naked hairy men. (Here are some deleted scenes from the movie.)

This morning I met some folks for a ride. It was raining but optimistically I thought it would stop, or at least be sporadic. Wrong. We rode two hours in the cold rain. I stopped by the shop to take a lactate threshold test. They gave me some hot coffee before I put my wet cycling accessories back on and hammered back home so that I would stay warm. I've had better days in cycling. However, the hot shower when I got home was amazing.

My LT threshold HR seem a little low. My LT threshold at 230 watts of power is 140 bpm. At 230 watts of power, my power-to-weight ratio is 4.15. The magic number for pro cyclists is 7. The pros in the Tour de France can put out numbers of 500 watts, for brief intervals, during the climbs. Please, don't beat down my door with requests to sponsor me as a pro. ;)

Anyhow, I'll probably go out and do a field test to get some more numbers for my LT threshold. Generally, it's good to have a low LT threshold when combined with a high wattage value. I have no idea if my wattage at LT is good for a female or not. After doing some reading on LT, it appears that nobody knows what is objectively good or bad because the factors involved are different for every person.