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alex_cycles
Guru
- Location
- Oxfordshire
OK. No worries. Hoping someone in my team might join. I've ridden it before, but want to refamiliarise before next week.
I'm off work tomorrow so might try and join you if I can get myself organised (and I'm not too destroyed after tonight's Ladder race!)
alex_cycles
Guru
- Location
- Oxfordshire
I hope someone else joins as it turns out my wife has a hospital appointment she needs a lift for, so I can't race
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Did all eight of the Climb Portal Spring Classics this afternoon, although across two separate sessions. Cipressa, Poggio, Oude Kwaremont, Koppenburg, Paterberg, Cauberg, Mur de Huy & Côte de La Redoute.
Some of the shorter ones like Koppenburg were somewhat ridiculous with it just being a straight line up at about 14% with a portal gate every 30 seconds - if you were lucky enough to get a feather and trigger it straight away it lasts longer than it takes to reach the next gate! I think I probably spent more time riding the lead-in through France than I did on the climb.
Some of the shorter ones like Koppenburg were somewhat ridiculous with it just being a straight line up at about 14% with a portal gate every 30 seconds - if you were lucky enough to get a feather and trigger it straight away it lasts longer than it takes to reach the next gate! I think I probably spent more time riding the lead-in through France than I did on the climb.
What a Milan San Remo race yesterday both men and women's
Legs
usually riding on Zwift or up steep hills...
- Location
- Staffordshire
I ride IRL this morning with a fella whom I ride ZRL against way back in 2021 (back in the days of Cyclechat #86). He beat me for the win in the epic season-closing Surrey Hills race.
Anyway, at 70 miles it was one of my longest rides since Strava. I probably wouldn’t have blown up and got dropped at the end if I hadn’t been knackered from shovelling and barrowing mulch yesterday afternoon, ridden 10 miles to the rendezvous and if there hadn’t been 15 miles of vigorous thru-and-off in the middle of the ride!
Anyway, at 70 miles it was one of my longest rides since Strava. I probably wouldn’t have blown up and got dropped at the end if I hadn’t been knackered from shovelling and barrowing mulch yesterday afternoon, ridden 10 miles to the rendezvous and if there hadn’t been 15 miles of vigorous thru-and-off in the middle of the ride!
