Miles last week 20 (20 road, 0 indoors)
Climbing 2700ft (900m)
Weight : 14st 5.0lbs (-2.0 lbs)
Body fat : 23.5% (+1%)
Tantia body type 2 (obese)
Back last Friday from a week with Pete in Portland, Oregon. Short 20 mile ride with Scott in Palo Alto on Wednesday which included a fair hill was the only riding since the weekend.
After the 100 mile ride with Pete we had a much shorter 40 miler in Hoo
d River Valley, beautiful scenery and a long 5 mile, 1000m ride at 6%. Interesting experience, kept my heart rate well below lactic threshold and got up in 50 minutes. Given Tourmalet is just over twice this height and 8% gave me a bit of confidence at first, until I realised I had not ridden 40 miles first, nor was the oxygen depleted near the top, nor did I have to do the same again on the Hautacam... hmmm, need some serious hill training over coming weeks and loose even more weight.Later in the week, visited Scott in Palo Alto and he took me on one of his regul
ar rides over the ridgeway towards the Pacific Ocean. Again a good hill involved, bit shorter at 3 miles, but with average 9% gradient going up to 25% in one place (or so my Garmin says). Confortable ride - though we were not breaking any speed records.
2 comments:
I was looking at the profile of the first Mt Hood day, and I think with a bit more practice we could scrape up that - it has two lots of Five Mile Hill followed by Ten Mile Hill. Had we not done the long run to the coast, at least hypothetically I could imagine crawling to the summit. Am taking mine in to be fixed and must get the Garmin cd up on my laptop so I can work out how to turn it on and off. Planning a couple of 40ishes for the w/end
Hope you are right... six weeks time need to do just that! You forgot to mention the very strong head wind we had to cope with... take that out of the equation and who knows what we could do ;-))
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