Cycle - 5.2 hours - 02/06/2010
Eight of us out for this week’s early Saturday ride. Did the first section of the Falling Leaves route but came home via Ide and Brasted instead of Toys and Sundridge. As ever, I was one of the slowest up hills early on but moved up a few places as some began to suffer for trying to keep up with Harvey on the first few hills. I put in an extra 30km solo circuit when everybody headed back towards Crystal Palace.
Felt great throughout the ride and it appears that I’ve found a pacing strategy that could work well for long distances. I tried to stick to 80% on the flats, pushed up to 85% on long hills, 91% on steep hills and occasionally dipped into Z5 when needed. Now I just need to improve my speed at those levels. Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix are around 260km each and spending upwards of ten hours riding them would not be fun. Even at 30kph they will take around 8:40 to complete — still two very long days in the saddle.
Workout:
- Type: Cycle
- Date: 02/06/2010
- Time: 08:30:00
- Total Time: 5:10:00.00
- Calories: 4086
- Distance: 130 km
- Average Speed: 25.16 kmph
- Ascent: 1,700 m
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