Decided to go out on the club run again, seeing that the weather was looking all right and was wondering how my form was developing. Unfortunately the majority of the club was out at an event so only a handfull of riders turned out, so I started off with 4 others with the moderate group as there was no fast group.
The ride out was ok, sat on the back as I had no mudguards and the majority of the road was wet, so I did not feel too guilty about that, even though I recieved a fair bit of spray from the bike in front (with mudguards).
On the way back the wind was begining to tell on two of the other rides, one of whom was not feeling too well shortly after we set off and a couple of hill later they broke off. The other rider and myself did not wait for them as we were closer to home so I took the opportunity to burn some energy in a test.
Big ring and head down I pushed hard until we reached the city sign and then backed off a bit.
The end result was a peak 435W average over 5 minutes at 175bpm average, which is 29W lower and 2pbm higher than my peak from last summer. But..... one was a hill climb.
Conclusion so far - the training is improving things but the cumulative training stress from riding to work is not returning the same results as sitting on the trainer in the shed for a shorter period of time ! The jury may still be out as the commuting is only 7 weeks (trips) so far.
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