This Sunday we had a so-called reliability ride from the Huddersfield Cycling Association (of which our club is a member). We did a 60 mile tour, which gave me 120 kilometers in the end, as I had to ride from home to the start and the finish was somewhere still 15 km from home. The tour went from Brighouse, via Bradford to Gargrave and than back via Skipton and Keighley to Queensburry. On my way back home I took the Bailiff Bridge hill (around 15% ascend for a couple of hundred meters) which I can tell you is not easiest option with 100km in your legs. The ride went very well - as always I have to warm up in the beginning, but after 30 to 40 km I start to get some real energy boosts - on a flat piece around Skipton I reached speeds of around 50 k/h. The weather starts to become better, it's less cold and today there was a nice sunny spell every now and then.
Statistics: 120 km, average speed 25.8 km/h - max speed 66 km/h - 1400 mtr total ascend.
Rode the Colnago - which I have transfered into my winter bike. It's not as light as the Focus Cayo Extreme, but it's a solid bike with reliabel campa stuff.
Done a minor (45km) ride earlier in the week and did a 20.8 km timed distance (in the spirit of a time trial) on Saturday, around Mirfield. One lap is 10.4 km, I did two laps but it was extremely windy. Still did an average of 30 km/h - which with a total ascend of 250 meters is not too bad.
The first lap was a bit faster than the second (20.30 to 21.25). I tried out my clip on aero bars on the Focus bike - this really looks cool. It was a bit too low so today I made it a bit higher, that sits better, maybe can lead to faster runs. I'm certainly gonna do some TT's this year.
This week I'm on a business trip - let's hope the hotels have good gyms.
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