Well last weekend was an ITT out at Te Aroha. Quite a good course, just one out and back with lots of rolling rises... and mostly smooth road - well for NZ anyway I'd call it smooth, but not hotmix...
On the day I left home late and did not have time for a warm up! Bad planning on my part. Got my bike together rode down to the start line and had the 1 minute call!
A bit disorganised to be fair. Anyway I did not have a plan so developed one over the first 5km. The plan was to hold about 160 HR for the out into the head wind. This did mean quite a variation in speed and the average was not that great.
Got to the turnaround point in 29m. Not bad I guess but would have liked too have been a bit quicker. I am still not too sure how fast to go for the first 20Km.
Coming back was mostly a tail wind and the ave speed lifted quite well. I even up the HR to about 165. Iwas able to regularly stay above 44Km/h and often getting over 49Km/h... It was quite fun!
Time 55'54" so quite good. Dave M 53'22" so still a ways to go there... in my dreams anyway...
In summary I think it was a good effort. I still had good legs as I went over the line so could have possibly gone faster on the out lap. Not sure whether there was much chance of going faster coming back.
I think the biggest difference to go faster on this course is to go quite hard over the rises to try and maintain momentum and a bit easier before them...
Next time I should just try riding the same HR for the whole ride and see what happens... who knows I maybe able to hold it for the distance...
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