It’s been a while since this series ended. I posted a review of the series 2009-2016 not longer after that. Here’s the 2016 specific one.
Monthly Archives: October 2016
Tim McArdle Handicap – 7 Min Bunch
The Plan
After a warmup where my thighs felt like they had no lactate tolerance and my legs could not push me up the small hill near the Shady Creek hall, there was no plan. I did not expect to last very long. Continue reading
Club Hill Climb Champs
Last year I hit the start line at 81.7kgs. That was deemed not ideal for hills. Today I was 85.2kgs. Even worse!
Recently, I’d recalibrated my FTP to be 290W as I’d not been able to hit the old 320 mark for a few months. The 320W comes from last year’s hill climb data.
The Plan
Video the race. Stay with the main bunch “for as long as possible” which equates to hopefully hang on until the house at the right hand corner about 2.5kms into it. Other than that, ride at a steady TT pace and work out what my FTP is at the moment. Continue reading