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These are Jack Russell s, they do what they like and not what I like 😂
alex_cycles
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And so it starts again. 
Off to TT at 10. Going to see if I can hold 210W average for the duration. (Mr boring 
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Off to TT at 10. Going to see if I can hold 210W average for the duration. (Mr boring )And so it starts again.
I'll say good luck now, wont see your ride live
Peter Salt
Bittersweet
- Location
- Yorkshire, UK
Stage IV individual results:
00:48:27.718: @bridgy
00:50:12.441: @berty bassett
00:50:28.396: @IrishAl
00:50:37.791: @Peter Salt
00:51:31.083: @CXRAndy
00:51:32.368: @Rich A
00:52:23.965: @Girafitti
00:53:09.677: @alex_cycles
Stage IV team result:
GC:
Sprinters:
Climbers:
00:48:27.718: @bridgy
00:50:12.441: @berty bassett
00:50:28.396: @IrishAl
00:50:37.791: @Peter Salt
00:51:31.083: @CXRAndy
00:51:32.368: @Rich A
00:52:23.965: @Girafitti
00:53:09.677: @alex_cycles
Stage IV team result:
GC:
Sprinters:
Climbers:
alex_cycles
Veteran
- Location
- Oxfordshire
I'll say good luck now, wont see your ride live
59:47 bit slower than I thought I'd be, but then maybe some fatigue in the legs. Only averaged 194W which was 16 below target. Although the target was based on 53 minute power
For 59 minute power it was only 3W below my bestMost of it was a slog, but I came alive on the final climb and passed several of the buggers who'd passed me earlier
I used to like TT. I think I'm a convert to 'proper' races now. I missed my drafting.
This course finishes a couple of hundred metres after the KoM arch.
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59:47 bit slower than I thought I'd be, but then maybe some fatigue in the legs. Only averaged 194W which was 16 below target. Although the target was based on 53 minute power
Most of it was a slog, but I came alive on the final climb and passed several of the buggers who'd passed me earlier
I used to like TT. I think I'm a convert to 'proper' races now. I missed my drafting.
This course finishes a couple of hundred metres after the KoM arch.
I'm the same Alex - used to think of TT type efforts as my strength, but now I think I'm much better at races with intermediate sprints or punchy climbs it seems - I blame the ZRL!
Not sure I can face another hour long TT tonight!
The hour long climbs in stage 2 and coming up in stage 7 have to be ridden effectively like ITT too as there's hardly any draft on those steep slopes.
Trying to think of a valid excuse (not easy with Tommy around I know) but it might just have to be
Peter Salt
Bittersweet
- Location
- Yorkshire, UK
59:47 bit slower than I thought I'd be, but then maybe some fatigue in the legs. Only averaged 194W which was 16 below target. Although the target was based on 53 minute power
Most of it was a slog, but I came alive on the final climb and passed several of the buggers who'd passed me earlier
I used to like TT. I think I'm a convert to 'proper' races now. I missed my drafting.
This course finishes a couple of hundred metres after the KoM arch.
I don't mind a TT, but definitely not a fan.I'm the same Alex - used to think of TT type efforts as my strength, but now I think I'm much better at races with intermediate sprints or punchy climbs it seems - I blame the ZRL!
Not sure I can face another hour long TT tonight!
The hour long climbs in stage 2 and coming up in stage 7 have to be ridden effectively like ITT too as there's hardly any draft on those steep slopes.
Trying to think of a valid excuse (not easy with Tommy around I know) but it might just have to be
Thanks for the tip on where the finishing banner is, Alex.
I'm completely shot today but passed the point where I actually care about how tired I feel. Yesterday was bad as well - before any activity, then during warm-up. Body was just telling me 'Nope. Not doing it'. Then a few seconds before the start, when I ramped up the power, it changed to 'Feck. I guess we are doing it'.
I find day 2 of multiday rides the worst, then you kinda just get in the swing of it. You're not pros with all the team backup etc.. so expect some fatigue and power not quite at PB's etc..
My experience is based on 7 - 8 days of 100+ miles in endurance mode, so very different to the power efforts your doing.
My experience is based on 7 - 8 days of 100+ miles in endurance mode, so very different to the power efforts your doing.
alex_cycles
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
That was my main reason for skipping the first few. Didn't think it would be wise for me to attempt them all and I had other stuff to finish. Those first three stages looked long and tiring.
Looking at yesterday's results though, it looks like it might be better to switch to the 1800 event which had 261 people in, rather than the 81 in the 1000 event. I'm hoping that was part of the reason for my crap time
I do prefer mornings though, but then you have to sit and watch yourself slide down the rankings 
berty bassett
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- Location
- I'boro
if I knew we were just doing the odd one here and there I would have tried last night !Trying to think of a valid excuse (not easy with Tommy around I know) but it might just have to be
if I knew we were just doing the odd one here and there I would have tried last night !
I was completely on the defensive last night - it was a battle for survival through each of the sprint/KOM segments and a desperate attempt to remain in the front group. The finish was weird wasn't it? It came very shortly after the Aqueduc KOM climb which was an FTS segment, but after a downhill which you could supertuck on - so after burying myself up the KOM I virtually free-wheeled to the finish line which is a first!
Peter Salt
Bittersweet
- Location
- Yorkshire, UK
I attacked on the last KOM and then supertucked too. Last 300m was basically freewheeling as well - couldn't find it in me to push.
alex_cycles
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berty bassett
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anyone doing it tonight - the end isn't at the top - its a bit further
It was tough, but oddly quite satisfying......
Until the last climb
As expected I was left quite way down the pack going up Petite. But on the flat I was picking off riders regularly. I must have passed 20 riders. I noticed my 2.8W/kg would outgun a 3.2W lighter rider on the flat. I knew that those lighter riders in my category that I passed in the last 5 miles would come back at me on the climb . They did, so I lost 5 or so places. I was praying for the switchbacks to end.
Out of practice for going deep and holding that pace, satisfied with effort
Until the last climb
As expected I was left quite way down the pack going up Petite. But on the flat I was picking off riders regularly. I must have passed 20 riders. I noticed my 2.8W/kg would outgun a 3.2W lighter rider on the flat. I knew that those lighter riders in my category that I passed in the last 5 miles would come back at me on the climb . They did, so I lost 5 or so places. I was praying for the switchbacks to end.
Out of practice for going deep and holding that pace, satisfied with effort
