When you get on a nice stretch of road and get into a rhythm, along comes a junction with about 300 cars to mess things up. That is unless you adopt a high risk strategy and see if you can get someone to either flash their light, honk the horn or are so gracious as to bounce you off thier vehicle bonet. My approach is one of enjoy it while I can, so I have to sit and wait for 300 people (all 1 person per vehicle) to pass by on their way home, or not.
Anyhow, the first 20 minutes started off without the intention of going too hard, but that quickly fell appart after about 4 minutes. The next 17 minutes were spent at a comfortable but hard pace that felt ok and not out of breath. Unfortunately my HR strap needs a new battery as the reception range on the Ergomo only picks up the signal when I'm stood or lent over the bars, not too good for comfort... but at the end of the 20 min range my HR topped out at 173 on the top of a small rise. Looking back at the data I recorded an NP of 399W and an average of 388W, cool, a new record !
At this point I thought that's it,otherwise I will be totally out of action tomorrow night. Easy 10 minutes followed and then a mixed set on the next hill for a couple of minutes, ok a bit short.... turn around, 2:15 burst up the other side again at 458W before a slow ride back.
All in all a short ride of just over an hour, hopefully enough to set me up for tomorrow.
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