I have some cracking rides, all around the 90min mark but at a good hard pace.
I scored a ticket to the Highland Fling and currently entered for the 100km. I've only got about 16 days to get into gear. So I need lots of big ring hills, high cadence sessions and more hills. The race has 2300m of climbing, ouch. I'll do a trail race about a week before to see how close I am and may drop it back to 50km depending on how suicidal I'm feeling.
I set out and completed a 20km time trial course this afternoon and finished it in 1:09mins. This will be my benchmark for a maximum effort session. At the end of the ride my hips were sore and I had a little lower back pain. I'm guessing because I haven't done many rides as hard as that over the last 2 months or so.
TLC Cycles have tuned my brakes to near perfection, new pads and a bleed and my levers are back out to where I like them. That is with minimal free-play, I like to be able to just tap the brake sometimes without going into a full skid or front wheel wash out, can be the difference between staying on line or getting sent into the bush. My descents felt good cause I could easily tuned the bike and speed on the way down.
I'm doing a 55km ride tomorrow morning. Its mainly tarmac and firetrail so 2:30mins is probably a good goal.
Until next post.
Keep your bike tuned up :-)
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