What a great day!
It was a bit foggy until 11am, but cleared up after that.
I managed an IM-esque loop into Derbyshire and Staffs, with 6,600ft of climbing:
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I canāt actually see other peopleās strava ?!
Thatās a lot of climbing ā¦!
Great ride.
Big day out. Hats a lot of hills!
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Hope you had disc brakes 
And @Mungo2 - seeing as my normal rides are about 600 foot of climbing, it was decent.
Best part was dragging the average speed up from 23kmh to 25kmh over the last 30km, once it had flattened off.
380TSS
232W NP.
Dragged my āfitnessā up to 99 
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Iām ONE HUNDRED PER CENT CERTAIN THAT IM THE ONE%.
Iām an awful descender and one guy in particular, similar flat bike times, took HUGE time out of me on that course, that said heās a really really good descender so itās unfair to play down his strengths.
Iāll get a disc brake bike when there cheapā¦ like me!
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Haha! Itās hard to practice descending because of the fear of traffic coming the other way, especially where I live!
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What is it? A lack of confidence going downhill? Or did you have an off?
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I train lots insideā¦
Until last August Iād never really come offā¦
Had a crash which cost me 2-3 races and a lot of skinā¦
Being honest someone who knows more than I do said your scared of crashing ā¦ because you never haveā¦
I was actually better todayā¦ on a cold, damp, foggy dayā¦
By the summer Iāll be the next Saganā¦ ish!
I did a run! 
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I rode Home from Adlington to Leyland
11 kmsā¦
In all fairness itās mostly down hill and wind assisted today I think ā¦!
Av kph went up 1.8 and hr av went down 4 beats ā¦!
Rode the cat on the old Kilo to go course I think it does go onā¦!
Thereās probably some truth to that to be fair. I felt the same when I first started lead climbing. When taking a clip, a good few feet above the last, hanging on a small hold of be shaking with effort desperately trying to get that next clip before I fell. But after a couple of 10ft plus falls, some with a bit of a bounce off the wall you donāt fear it so much as you know how youāll react. From then on I was much more relaxed taking the clips.
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Got straight back on the bike as soon as my leg would bend and entered the 2 up last min just to bury that demon.
A mere flesh woundā¦!
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Yes I remember you crashing now.
Some nasty road rash you picked up.
I guess being familiar with the roads, what line, where to brake etc all help.
I really should make some sort of plan to get to Wales and get myself a recce in
Yep Foggy came out of the water 25 th?
And rode to a 16? Min leadā¦
Thatās all she wrote for the win I guess, he lives on that loop and is a certified dare devil on the downs ā¦ I guess 301 W np average is always handy too!
A local guy was smashing it too but then he got jelly belly and lost loads of places, local knowledge has to help on a technical course.
Wales should be epic for the 10 th birthday !
That crash left me standing on my head!!!
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Reckon the M4 is your best bet.
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I think that yesterday was one of those defining days, when you look back and say what were my most significant workouts in preparation for the season.
There was no reason why a cold, dull Wednesday would prove to be so significant. Plan was to do an easy commute, and started off this way, but 10km into ride, I was thinking that I felt brilliant, so why not add some pace. It was a good ride but nothing special, other than feeling really good at the end. After work, I had to get to my Daughterās school 42km away for an exhibition. Unfortunately as I was about to leave work, someone asked me to send some information urgently, so I was 25 minutes late. I decided to really go for it on the ride, and got to school in record time. Despite the hard ride I still felt amazing. 15mins at the School and I was now late for my interval running, so put on another hard 10km to get to the track ASAP. A triathlon style transition, 2km warm up, then straight into intervals. Still felt brilliant. Dropped everyone, including my usual running partner, set a new LTHR (according to Garmin). Finally rode 2km home.
No idea why I felt so strong today. I think that this may be a result of training much more at lower intensity. I wonāt be doing this too often, but feels like the bike/run pieces have fallen into place
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Sounds like you were sport climbing? 