Soarerv8
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Damn you bkool you have booted me out if this doesn't upload I am coming to Spain to track you down (after I have had a bit of a lie down)
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Soarerv8
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Oh god why are there uphill bits in the downhill?
How the hell can you manage to type while riding
I wouldn't even be able to tell my secretary to type it if it was me riding (if I actually had one).
He was on target for about 59 minutes, and a handful of seconds by my calculations
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- Location
- Powys, Wales
AAAC, I was watching for a bit, the power you put down is VERY impressive. I didn't see the end but if you were booted by BKool, you have my deepest sympathy...you were obviously not holding back!
Paulf1566
Senior Member
- Location
- Menston, Ilkley
Good man Paul. Just start the session from the league listings on bsim and make sure you pedal for the whole warm up. That's it really!
Many thank guys for all who offered and hope you have a good one. Try to take it easy on Gail!
Go easy on Gail?!!! You gotta be kidding! She paced it perfectly. Congrats!
Lol. Was just talking to her there. She's all chuffed that she held on to the end there. Sounded like quite a battle!! 0.3 secs between you was it??
Well, that was lonely, no chance of drafting on that ride.. had to shut off and go into time trial mode 
Thanks for the messages of encouragement people, but Bill.. no more funny ones about me catching AAAC (when he was already minutes in front) as i had to laugh and nearly spat High5 over my keyboard!
Saw AAAC finish then he restarted !! Thought I'd better get a move on as I was still going up the big hill and didn't want him catching me on his second lap!
Thanks for the messages of encouragement people, but Bill.. no more funny ones about me catching AAAC (when he was already minutes in front) as i had to laugh and nearly spat High5 over my keyboard!
Saw AAAC finish then he restarted !! Thought I'd better get a move on as I was still going up the big hill and didn't want him catching me on his second lap!
Paulf1566
Senior Member
- Location
- Menston, Ilkley
No really, well done. 
AAAC 76C
Large Member
- Location
- LIVING THE DREAM
I have to confess that this course is ideal for catching those down up power spikes I have demonstrated in a small 2km session where I was able to peak at over 1000 watts at the begining of a climb without pedaling.
If I take my power into the climb from a descent I can actually crest small climbs at unusually high power peaks before BSim actually catches up with the resistance which is probably a bit similar to the on/off technique.
My normal style of riding is kind of Time Trialy style but not with a constant effort more trying to keep my speed constant so I rest on descents with blue speeds and power into climbs and dig in on flats.
I have found that on some courses I can acheive 50kph/30mph at lower wattages than others and this course appears to one of them.
So add the power spiking and the unusually high flat speed and you get a really unusual/improbable result.
My PC would not let me take a screen print when Bkool crashed but I took some phots with my phone (but not whilst riding).
When I crashed out I had a small 8% to crest and the rest looked like it was downhill most of which looked pretty steep.
At that point I was at 54:37 with 3.1km to run and looking at the profile I would proably have average over 60kph which in my books would have been another 3 minutes.
While I am on my Turbo my wife often does some private work for Consultants at the Hospital (typing notes) and she thinks that the time of my crash may have coincided with here e-mailing her finished work back to the hospital in an encrypted file.
She was also doing typing on Thursday. We are going to do a little test tomorrow to see if this is the case.
I have however come across sessions before that no matter what I do I can't complete them without it crashing.
I will have another go tomorrow if it is still live and I have the legs.
I shall probably challenge Jacob so that I can draft up to the climb and then go hell for leather.
You know I thought the end of the effort would be at the top of the big climb because the rest looked almost all downhill. How wrong was I, those last few little inclines are real killers.
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berty bassett
Legendary Member
- Location
- I'boro
Thank you Adski for encouragement - that was some hill - is there a video of the ride as the pictures look brilliant
