White Rose Classic sportive through the Yorkshire dales today.
Had a great ride and completed the 116 mile, 3,900m climbing in 7:10 - which gave me a Gold standard finish.
Ecstatically pleased. This was 44 mins faster than I did it last year.
Lots of positives - will reflect on them more over the coming days as I'm pretty knackered now!
Felt strong all the way round, and my game plan of :
- just one water bottle (but I'll take two on the Etape)
- no solid food while riding just 7x 100g maxim gel sachets and some SiS energy drink
- keep my HR under control - no silly efforts or racing up the climbs
- did ok on the descents - keeping with the group and not bottling too much coming off Fleet Moss (a new max speed of 48 mph - fastest I've ever done!)
It felt like I always had something on each climb (I stayed in the saddle for most of them), and was able to push hard on the flats, even when I was on my own or doing big stints on the front.
All in all a great day - and lots of other PBs from the early birds so we were all very pleased.
Garmin output at: http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/5924296
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Chapeau, the broom wagon will be a mere spot on the horizon for you.
Interestingly your Garmin showed much less ascent than the organisers suggest and what I would guess just looking at the profile, but equally 3900m looks a bit much too. A few of my group have Garmins and have noticed discrepancies between each other and estimates from sportive organisers e.g. Chiltern 100 site says 2600m of climbing, whereas two of our Garmins estimated 2400m. Perhaps the organisers of these events just like to flatter us?
Yes, I noticed this too - the distance was spot on though compared with the 116 miles the organisers say and when a friend maped it out on memory map.
If anyone asks though I'm saying it was 3,900!
Yes indeed the broom wagon will not even get a snif of you.
44 mins is a great improvement over 116 miles course, it shows you how far you have come good since last year.
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