Great time there on WC stage 12
@AAAC 76C - top of the pile
Another funny day in BKool La La Land.
WC Stage 12 (White Roads).
Challenged No2 (Thomas R) because Pep's time seemed pointless chasing.
The challenge had all the right ghosts in already so I had plenty of bench marks/references.
Started well on a 52/13 and hit on bleep No 3 and was first off of the line.
Got the normal ridiculous starting speed anomaly which carried nicely into the small descent whilst clicking down into 52/11.
I hit the first incline at km 2 at 280 watts and the speed just didn't drop of and the watts stayed quite flat.
Everything seemed a bit odd and by the time I got to the next descent I realised the resistance was not changing.
All of this time I had been bit distracted because I had no HR showing.
Anyway I backed of on the cadence and then the resistance kicked in.
By this time I was already showing as having over a minutes lead.
As I hit the next climb at km 6.3 I noticed the resistance was not rising so again I backed off on the cadence and it kicked in again.
It seemed to work for the rest of the session and by this time HR was back and I paced myself for the rest of the session to keep below my 160 bpm limit.
This was a combination of medium spinning effort on the declines and out of saddle/higher cadence power climbs.
As I crested the penultimate climb my chest was feeling a bit tight.
I have learnt that my best course of action when this happens is to back of but keep on exercising.
Stopping can result in some real discomfort.
By the time I got to the foot of the final climb I was feeling OK again so I put in another high effort but the tightness soon came back so I reduced my effort over the top of the crest and coasted home.
I was annoyed because I thought I was going to best Pep's time but by slowing up I thought I had lost out.
Apparently not!
Well the time I got was part down to gifted hyper powers at the beginning and probably some standard super powers in the middle.
Had this been the Chaingang I would have stopped short or not saved the session but seeing as it's only the WC I thought what the heck.
In penance I won't re-run Stage 11 and stay last on our group of 4.
However the super powers were still there on the Handicap which why I managed to fly up to Bridgy again on the last climb but I was too knackered from the WC Session to bother fixing it or to contest on the downhill to the finish so I tried to drag Rob home instead and lead him out for a sprint against himself.
a little, you probably didn't push yourself hard enough 
very unhappy.
