Dunno. Post something and let’s find out 
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I did that race a few years ago, it was the only race I’ve had a headwind in both directions on an out and back course 
I think basically when you were on the lower path it was rebounding off the wall into your face, when you were on the top it was in your face!
Would be a fast course on a good day though.
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YES!
Exactly this
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Haha yes that is what it was like.
Really not sure they have many good days but would be fast if you got lucky!
I ran my PB there in Feb 2013. 1:33:35
I’m going again in Feb looking for <1:30
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Probably see you there @PCP also looking for a <1:30.
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Started to feel that creeping pressure of continuously improving/upping my weekly hours etc, so have decided to nip it in the bud with an easy week.
Have to remind myself that I have nothing to train for, and doing 6 or 7 hours in a week is not going to make a jot of difference to anything! The reason I’ve been nice and consistent for the past couple of months is I’ve been enjoying it. Need to make sure I stay on this side of the pure enjoyment line until I need to commit to the performance side of the line.
So binned off today’s lunchtime turbo and set up my new TV that just arrived instead. Mrs GB is out riding tonight, so I may still zwift in the evening. But I’ll make that call at 7.30 and see how I feel.
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That sound equine based 
Exactly this - enjoy it.
I’ve spent so long putting pressure on myself to complete sessions, then losing my head when I don’t complete them, that I’m now in the mindset of “I’m a 42-year-old with 6-year-old twins and a full-time job who coaches a football team, do what makes you happy.”
I’m setting shorter weeks and accepting that being consistent is more important than stressing about massive sessions than having hero weekends that ruin me for days.
Have a reduced week, you’ll feel great next week.
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oh gosh no! I moved a long way away to get away from farms and horsey world! Though Mrs GB would happily get a pony for the girls if she could, but i’ve locked that one out straight away!!!
No, she’s riding her sparkly bike that just got magically cleaned top to bottom by the little elves (anything to encourage her to ride even more)
yup.
Don’t get me wrong, i love the big build and hammering myself for an event. But i had to remind myself that there are no races incoming! Just keep it sustainable, keep it fun and make sure i’m fit enough to take on any crazy adventure that may come across my desk at any moment.
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Haha. My wife went along to a women-only bike skills course and the woman running it said she’d never seen a cleaner bike. My wife grinned sheepishly and admitted she’d never cleaned it in the (several) years she’d had it, yet magically no matter how often she rode it, it was always sparkly and clean.
On the other hand, I hope she never reads this, as although I pull my weight in chores, I never clean in the house. Ever.
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I must admit, there’s a tiny ulterior motive, in that a happier Mrs GB is a happier GB. And if she rides 2/3 times a week, then there’s no grief when i go out! haha
Nah she’s fine really. But i know she won’t clean the bike herself. I never used to either until this year. Lots easier no i have the products and brushes and stuff to hand, so if i’m cleaning mine i’ll do hers (but not as carefully!!! 
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I’m really slowly learning about maintenance and stuff. It’s not that i have trouble comprehending intellectually it’s just the actual execution. Like my hands don’t do what my brain tells them to, which is why i#m shit at anything that requires dexterity and patience!
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1012-3
“A PAEE of 30 kJ kg−1d−1 with a 30% MVPA fraction was associated with a 72% (44–86%) lower hazard.”
So to reduce your risk of death by 72% you need to do 30kJ per kilogram of exercise and 30% of it moderately vigourous. That’s going to be around 30 minutes at threshold work per day, and active enough to get your non vigourous exercise in too.
So it’s not for training it’s to reduce your risk of death!
You trying to fitness shame me into a black hole of fear?! 
IDon’t worry, i’m not advocating a fall to total slovenly slothfulness! I’m pretty sure i get enough activity in the day chasing the kids about before exercise even kicks in. Maybe not that amount every single day, but over a week i’m still pretty active.
To be fair, if you actually read the data (sci hub tw) then you’d get most of the same death reduction from quite a lot less exercise! On the chasing kids though, you do get a lot more value out of the moderately vigourous than just chasing kids.
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7k uphill run on the tredders earlier, 5:00 minute k paces.
Lot harder than it should of been, I blame my sweat box garage.
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Actually went out for a little ride on the MTB tonight, not a massively technical route but >400M climbing.
Actually quite enjoyed it and was surprised how dry the trails were, a huge difference to Sunday.
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Had a mega stressful day. Really did not feel like doing anything but got out the door for a leg loosener.
6km 33.03 at 5.30 pace
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Did nothing.
Knee hurts.
Can’t bend my leg.
A nice 10 hours of work
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