Feels like the wife punched it last night. Not too bad but it aches a bit when I lift it up (so trying not to lift it up!).
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Feels like the wife punched it last night. Not too bad but it aches a bit when I lift it up (so trying not to lift it up!).
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Sore arm (and even that's not particularly bad - had much worse), but otherwise that's about it. I do feel very sleepy, but that's the same pretty much every morning! I'd say last night's ride took more out of me than the jab.
berty bassett
Legendary Member
- Location
- I'boro
Sounds like you got away lightly - ain’t it strange how it effects people in different ways
Illnesses tend to effect me quite badly. I think it's because I'm a highly tuned athlete....
mjd1988
Guru
Interesting! The time is a bit early for me but presumably I could join and just take part at quarter past 7 or whenever I want as only the segment counts. I'm guessing it is draftable though so there would be a disadvantage
I guess the same one as last season, was it Burninglegs?
I might be able to Bring back 'nic fug' and another friend. Are we going back to two teams?
I was thinking the flatter courses, we could have quite an impressive sprint team line-up .. although the climbing stages we'd be a bit buggered
Based on numbers last night I can't be far off being upgraded now by ZP, so I might as well go onto the B rota (plus we have a full CCC rota).
mjd1988
Guru
On the flats and downhill yes, my w/kg was defo lower which is why I was pressing hard on any incline. May have had a better TT bike too
On the flat, rider height and raw watts is more significant than w/kg. On climbs, w/kg is king.
It varied. Lee beat me by just over a minute with lower watts but higher w/kg. I also beat Michael by just under a minute with (slightly) lower watts than him but higher w/kg. On the other hand, I beat Tim by 34 seconds with higher watts but lower w/kg 🤷♂️
The first 13km were pretty much flat, and for that section I did 291 watts (3.73w/kg), and Lee did 290 watts (4.53w/kg) and he was 44 seconds ahead. So I wonder if this was simply an advantage of 5cm height difference?
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Weight certainly makes *some* difference even on the flat - I was doing 280-300W for the first two miles, but that's only 2.9-3.1 w/kg for me. With that effort I held on to Carl and Bram for about a minute but slowly they crept away, whereas the lead group of B's had disappeared off into the distance within the first few seconds. Then I dropped back to 250-260W for most of the rest of the flat section.
The toughest part of the course for me was once you'd gotten up onto the elevated railway section but before the climb actually started - it was mentally draining to have to do a whole lap and a half of that before the KOM (you even go past the KOM start turn-off once), because at that point I was managing my watts as I was ready to try and attack the climb, but it wasn't coming soon enough!
The toughest part of the course for me was once you'd gotten up onto the elevated railway section but before the climb actually started - it was mentally draining to have to do a whole lap and a half of that before the KOM (you even go past the KOM start turn-off once), because at that point I was managing my watts as I was ready to try and attack the climb, but it wasn't coming soon enough!
berty bassett
Legendary Member
- Location
- I'boro
Bike and wheel choice ? 🤷♂️ I did ask if we should all have the basic set up as it makes a difference
