Back out in the real world Sunday with another climb up Little C. I hadn't gone hard up that climb yet this year and needed to get in a couple harder efforts prior to the Snowbird Hillclimb in a couple weeks (which shares the hardest 6 miles of the climb).
I'd set a goal to bring the cadence and HR up by 10% and ride 10% faster than the relatively gentle ride up from last week. That would a medium-hard effort, but certainly not race intensity. It'd also be competitive with my best time up the canyon from last year (which was a 10+ year best).
Nailed the cadence and HR goals, which were up 15% and 12% respectively and I came within a minute of last year's best effort. So good all around. Even more encouraging was that while the effort was hard, I'm pretty sure I ought to be able to bump up the intensity again next week. I'm still clearly under the intensity of the Zwift races and I'm carrying a fair amount of fatigue. Figure next week I'll be looking to set a best in a decade effort up that climb.
Tentatively planning to race Mon, Tue and Thu in Zwift which is one day less than I've been doing recently.
I'd set a goal to bring the cadence and HR up by 10% and ride 10% faster than the relatively gentle ride up from last week. That would a medium-hard effort, but certainly not race intensity. It'd also be competitive with my best time up the canyon from last year (which was a 10+ year best).
Nailed the cadence and HR goals, which were up 15% and 12% respectively and I came within a minute of last year's best effort. So good all around. Even more encouraging was that while the effort was hard, I'm pretty sure I ought to be able to bump up the intensity again next week. I'm still clearly under the intensity of the Zwift races and I'm carrying a fair amount of fatigue. Figure next week I'll be looking to set a best in a decade effort up that climb.
Tentatively planning to race Mon, Tue and Thu in Zwift which is one day less than I've been doing recently.
