I'm picking up pace again after a bit of a lull, and went out yesterday for a fairly hilly session. I was doing a Strava segment, 8.9km with an average gradient of 2.4%, but unfortunately as they often seem to do it ramps up at the end. About 1 km to go, on a steep bit, breathing heavily, heartrate about 5 beats away from my maximum, my cycling glasses began to steam up until my vision was quite seriously affected.
You know how in comics you see those spirals appearing when someone is dazed? Suddenly I've got two big brown swirls in front of my face. My first thought was I'm passing out- my vision is going. I don't know why I thought that, because I have never had any history of passing out.
Half a second later I realise there's a tractor attached to the swirls. It's coming round the corner with two big round bales raised in the air on front forks.
The segment? 7th overall. I'm pretty happy with that, given climbing isn't my strong point.
You know how in comics you see those spirals appearing when someone is dazed? Suddenly I've got two big brown swirls in front of my face. My first thought was I'm passing out- my vision is going. I don't know why I thought that, because I have never had any history of passing out.
Half a second later I realise there's a tractor attached to the swirls. It's coming round the corner with two big round bales raised in the air on front forks.
The segment? 7th overall. I'm pretty happy with that, given climbing isn't my strong point.
