Long Ride Recon

Weekend turned into a long ride focus at the last moment. Did a recovery session on Friday to keep the legs fresh then just sat at home and ate and drank to fill up stores. Didn't get to bed as early as i'd have liked but such is life.

6:30am to rise and get some food in. Plan did not work and all i could eat was 2 slices of toast and a cup of coffee and some grapefruit. Body is not used to the early morning rides at the moment so will have to start rectifying that.

Rolled out and rode the 23km to Stillorgan to meet Ollie, held a nice constant 232W on the way and just rolled along waiting for the stomach to wake up. Didn't spend enough time on the aerobars though.

Met Ollie and we headed to Wicklow, struggled up some hills with a 53/40 and 11-21, stupid climbing gears. Muppet. Over all ride came in at just over 130km, which was nice.

Now the nerding:

TSS for the ride 299.5 WOW, big big numbers, so in a 5 hour ride i spent 3 hours riding over threshold. Now i know this was a hilly route, and my gearing was stupid, but that was unexpected. So i think i need to do a re assess on my 20mins time :/

Power sat at a nice 179W Avg (229W NP) but there was allot of free wheeling on the descents. Peak 5 seconds: 820W, peak 10mins 273, peak 60mins 240W.

All reasonable numbers, but being honest it was still a solid ride, no where near max.