The riding in maine...

Was wonderful. Didn't get out nearly as much as I wanted but I had a nice steep hill with pitches at 15% to work with and a longer one around a mile with points from 4-8%. For a flat lander down here in RI these were wonderful to go do circuits on. I pretty much did the same circuit each ride. First one was sort of a trial and a bit short, but nothing too long. But the intensity was up there for each. Got warmed up, then hit it big and hard always big ringing it either grinding or trying to keep a fast steady cadence alternating between standing or sitting.

It was only a 18 mile or so loop, really short for the one short day (mapped) with only ~1400 feet of climbing based on the one map program i tried. That I did in just barely over an hour including warm up and cool down and no attacking on the downhills unless they were not so steep (actually did a bit of breaking because the sight lines were bad and i didn't want to push the envelope). Adding a second loop and an extra longer hill pushed the time up to about 90 minutes with warm up and cool down. Short. But intense.

I rode hard with Mark Nicholson in my thoughts. Warmed up in the little ring and stuck with it much longer (till the first shot down the steep hill) than I would have normally (like he did on the smackdown) and I just attacked every crest of the hills, and the base of every climb.

Didn't make it out every day, strung a few days together in a row, one day off, hit it again. Added some walking and stuff with the dog and stayed pretty active.

No idea on speed. Just time. No idea on distance, till mapping it out. Just going based on keeping my breathing labored and pushing my legs past the breaking point.

Mark Nicholson Memorial Smackdown Ride Tonight. 5:15pm Faunce, 5:30 Depasqualle Square. About 2 hours or so, neutral warm up start. Off the path attack until you puke and hold on. Word is that there might be markings on the road to follow now.

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