of pain...
18-25mph headwind all the way north up to Diamond hill..
Took river road - a bit hilly...
hit manville then west wrentham then tower hill road...
on the cross bike with team mate on his cross bike...
team mate same rough height and weight...
lots of work...
didn't start getting hungry till 3 hour mark...
only had gatorade during the ride...
started bonking as we came up the final hill (doyle - second to last of yesterday's repeats)...
wicked damn good ride... ~2400kJ of energy recorded by the 'tap...
legs felt good... lungs felt good...
coulda pushed it a bit harder - but still managed to get some good numbers...
well good numbers for March i suppose... I hope...
I'm working on eating a whole tub of Kozy Shack...
Need calories...
NEED FOOD...
long rides = good
the tail wind pushing us home kicked ass - its great going 25 mph and feeling like you are in a draft... oh its like motor pacing... or speed work ;)
Only managed 51 miles total but considering the first 7 were into the teeth of the wind pulling the trailer and then into the wind on a cross bike... it felt pretty good...
And so i was exporting this stuff incase the tap runs out of memory on the way home and i see this file from Haverill that cronoman sent me...
And i pull it up on the power agent software... looking at both races - the number are lower (by sheer numbers not w/kg) than what i've got in the 'puter for right now...
granted there's about 10 kilos difference making his 1077 peak 13.8 w/kg but even then that's the 5 sec peak and my 5 sec number is just under 16 w/kg
maybe there is hope for me yet...
and sticking the trailer on and heading back up the hill to the office was PAINFUL...
and wicked slow - there is a lot of extra force needed to drag that damn thing around...
Oh yesterday's numbers - the coolest number was the 98 N-m of torque... thassa lotta torque...
it is gonna be fun to see if we can make it work on the bike in the race situation...
respect
G
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Winds of about the same strength here today, too. The weather said 25 mph from the North while I was out. I only managed a little less than 8 miles today, boo.
Have I mentioned I hate riding into the wind like that? Riding back is nice, but it doesn't make up for the effort you have to expend riding against it.
That, and I nearly got blown into traffic when I was riding over the bridge across the Merrimack...
The nice thing today is that the ride home is more or less due south (with a brief mile or so north up hill to get to daycare)...
and the way my legs are feeling right now that's an Effin damn good think...
We'll see what kinda of power i can get out of these stumps on the way there tho... should be interesting...
that and i think i'm slightly dehydrated right now... talking for 3 hours w/o break kinda prevented a good re-hydration regime oh well - hydration time tonight...
Good to hear ya got out tho Lee - i haven't checked in at TSP yet - too much going on... maybe tomorrow
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