Not a huge lot to say, its just a pain typing on my mini key board on my bike whilst warming down.
I planned the session by challenging Jacob.
Went to add a couple of bots and there were a few Pep T's in there 3 of which had faster times than the one showing in the league results.
There were quite a few Elite in there so I added them all (and now they all have e-mails)
Anyway my aim was to best Jacob as I see him as the man to beat other than our own DP of course.
The gun fired and we were off, I dead stopped and quite a few folk shot by but I kept calm and slowly pulled them all back bar a Pep and AN other.
Had another dead stop and a couple of guys went past.
By the top of the first climb I only had on the fastest Pep and Mik Mak in front of me.
I didn't work too hard on the descent and they both pulled away a touch but I caught Mik Mak and Pep on the second climb or I may have caught Pep later thinking about it.
From there on in it was literally plain sailing.
I was careful not to push too hard into any transitions and was paid back by far too easy climbs over lumps and it just went on like that.
I was worried Pep's ghost would come back on the final climb but that was no to be so and the rest is History.
Another podium for Team Cyclechat !
On Thursday I'd love to have a go at pulling a group of Team Members to a good time and bail out 500m from the end and go back later on the week and post my own time.
So come on down on Thursday to get as many Team Members on page 1 as possible.
Just had a recon of the route and we should be able to put in a good time. I did 1/4 of the route in 7.20 but that was after a 40 km ride and still out of sorts with my legs after Saturdays run (although I can now walk down the stairs unaided!)
My observations are that the peaks are really steep (over 8%) not too long, but long enough to become tiring. There is a big dead stop between the peaks, transition from -10% to +10% so not anything we can do about that.
We need an average speed around 31.5 kph at the top of the second peak first time around to be on target but the important bit is teamwork on the way down to push the speed up. Front man will have to push hard with regular transitions to recover for the next uphill - 4 laps of the same pain!
in my mouth with a mile to go and then really bad cramp in right calf with about 5-10 odd seconds to goI didn't think you were old enough to have seen that Paul.
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