It was long ride day today; I had planned to do 6 hours but circumstances changed and had to stop at 5 hours. It isn't an issue really as last week I did 5hrs 40 on my 5 hr ride day plus I'm actually going to get one extra long ride in due to the way my schedule works. As from next week my long ride will be Monday or Tuesday; this will result in week 13; officially start of taper, having my long ride at the beginning of the week; I felt that doing my final long ride Tuesday 4th June was to long before the Outlaw; hence the additional long ride on 11th June was better. My taper will start on the 17th June instead.
On to my ride; I did the OTR Lake Placid followed by Quads on Fire (but this would be done in zone 3), to make it 5 hours I repeated the 2x8 mins and added 3x30secs to finish the 5 hours; like we do on HC100.
I was up at 6.30 am, had a banana and a cereal bar, sorted my nutrition and started around 7am. Initially I had a few issues with the tyre slipping; I really must get a trainer tyre; to stop it I had to increase the tension, not much but was pushing around an extra 10 watts for the same speed.
I love the lake placid OTR but I do struggle with high cadence low resistance work and especially first thing in the morning; it resulted in a lower speed over the first hour then I would have liked. Once I've done some heavier gear work I seem to be able to increase my cadence on the lower resistance work. I loved the last hour; felt great.
I then went on to Quads on Fire and basically pushed top end zone 3 for the next couple of hours; I repeated the 2x8 mins set and added an additional 3x30secs at the end; I felt brilliant throughout, my HR didn't go out of zone 2 and I really don't feel like I've covered 87 miles.
I also did a short 20 min run straight of the bike and felt great.
Lol I might not be saying that tomorrow :)
Great job Karen. We do what we can!
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