The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc)

[g-boaf]

76km today outside so happy with that.

I was taking it easy just to make sure my ankle didn’t flare up. Still had reasonable speed. Only problem was temp:

Min 4°C and average temp 8°C. Brrrr!

[am50em]

It was cold this morning but had the correct amount of winter gear on. Fitness definitely improving got a Strava PB and a couple of 2nd and 3rd PBs.

[g-boaf]

I did part of the Sydney to Woolongong ride on Fulgaz, which was one of the charity rides.

I could stand about 70 minutes of that. I shall stick to the proper hilly routes. It did however put paid to any ideas I might have had about doing that ride IRL seeing the way the others in the video went about it.

[davehirst]

160 km race today, all was going great.
I broke away from second pack with 70 km to go, solo for 55 km and still feeling strong only to get a puncture 15 km out, and then watch most of the group pass me while i faffed about trying to fix it.
I was a tad annoyed

[warthog1]

Bugger! Sounds like you were going well too.

[davehirst]

Not in the same league as the front fellas, but happy with my efforts.

[warthog1]

Tried tubeless? It is much better for puncture resistance ime.
Glad the legs were there anyway.

[Mr Purple]

Found a decent steep climb up here at Noosa - Tinbeerwah Lookout.

It’s a funny one depending on where you start it from. Can include the Gyndier Drive ascent as well which makes it 6.23km/173m but the kicker is the last 1.12km/7.1%.

Probably could plan my efforts a bit better but took 7 top 10s up there today including 2nd overall for the climb from Cooroy-Noosa Road. Probably need fresher legs but think I could ultimately get all of them.

Good to get some actual practice pacing a climb rather than just going to VO2Max and seeing what fails first!

[warthog1]

Found a decent steep climb up here at Noosa - Tinbeerwah Lookout.

It’s a funny one depending on where you start it from. Can include the Gyndier Drive ascent as well which makes it 6.23km/173m but the kicker is the last 1.12km/7.1%.

Probably could plan my efforts a bit better but took 7 top 10s up there today including 2nd overall for the climb from Cooroy-Noosa Road. Probably need fresher legs but think I could ultimately get all of them.

Good to get some actual practice pacing a climb rather than just going to VO2Max and seeing what fails first!

You need to get down to the high country and do some longer climbs. That'll make you pace yourself

https://theclimbingcyclist.com/climbs/a ... omeo-side/
https://theclimbingcyclist.com/climbs/a ... mt-buller/

[am50em]

I've only done the easy one starting from Bright:

The stunning ascent of Mt. Buffalo in Victoria’s north-east is among the easiest of the Victorian Alps climbs. But, at a touch under 21km, the climb still demands strength and fitness of riders who are keen to partake in the breathtaking summit views.

https://theclimbingcyclist.com/climbs/m ... t-buffalo/

Keen to go back and do a few more. Maybe in springtime.

[g-boaf]

Found a decent steep climb up here at Noosa - Tinbeerwah Lookout.

It’s a funny one depending on where you start it from. Can include the Gyndier Drive ascent as well which makes it 6.23km/173m but the kicker is the last 1.12km/7.1%.

Probably could plan my efforts a bit better but took 7 top 10s up there today including 2nd overall for the climb from Cooroy-Noosa Road. Probably need fresher legs but think I could ultimately get all of them.

Good to get some actual practice pacing a climb rather than just going to VO2Max and seeing what fails first!

If you get a chance, do a Haute Route in France, join Two Wheel Tours because he organises everything well above even the level of the HR organisation itself. Go and attack those big HC climbs - a couple of them per day and 7 days in a row. You’ll smash it and come back even stronger.


My effort today was Col de la Madeleine on Fulgaz with the whole lot at 247w average. Average HR 170bpm and average cadence 74.

Not max effort but hard. I paced that quite well keeping the power very steady the whole way.

[warthog1]

I've only done the easy one starting from Bright:

The stunning ascent of Mt. Buffalo in Victoria’s north-east is among the easiest of the Victorian Alps climbs. But, at a touch under 21km, the climb still demands strength and fitness of riders who are keen to partake in the breathtaking summit views.

https://theclimbingcyclist.com/climbs/m ... t-buffalo/

Keen to go back and do a few more. Maybe in springtime.

I need to get back there too! Great riding. Buffalo is one of my favourite climbs of the ones I've done.

[ningnangnong]

Constant deluge here today, and looking ominous for the week ahead.

Decided to give the trainer a go for the first time in a few months.

Nup, did about 3km and I gave up. Zero motivation for it. Don't know how you guys do it!

[jasonc]

Wrong thread

[g-boaf]

Constant deluge here today, and looking ominous for the week ahead.

Decided to give the trainer a go for the first time in a few months.

Nup, did about 3km and I gave up. Zero motivation for it. Don't know how you guys do it!

Easy - because if I’m sitting around feeling sorry for myself then I feel even worse knowing fitness is slipping away, and it does very quickly for me.

So I’m going to give it everything I have.

Plus I do Fulgaz with some stunning climbs. Today I went to Andorra and 17km with 1100m+.

It’s a tough effort but also sightseeing.

Andorra looks quite nice for riding…. Hmmm…

If it was Zwift then yeah, boring as heck listening to the arguments and going along like robotic drones on the same old rolling hills courses.

[am50em]

For some fun - Rank me as a cyclist: https://www.cyclingapps.net/calculators ... a-cyclist/



VO2max estimate us close to Garmin estimate of 48