Yes, buff as a sweatband. Looks awesome with male pattern baldness.
PRL half ticked off as part of a race.
Only 122 on the start line and first time I’ve ever got away in the lead group.
What a mistake that was. I really don’t cope with going into the red early.
Lap 1 on the limit
Lap 2 went backwards
Lap 3 started to recover and made some progress
Lap 4 hanging on to a cat c up box hill (I’m cat b?!?) then trying to sandbag in our group of 3 with another cat b before he dropped some 10w/kg bombs with a km to go.
10/13 in cat on zwift power which is pants.
29/122 I think on zwift.
Meh
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Uber broke me.
I finished it, but need to go back one day.
PRL full is one of my last 2 to do
It is very tough, at least I found it was. I have 18 left but all the huge ones are done. Concentrating on hoovering up the rest and then getting that Torn bike. I haven’t done the Volcano x 25 yet.
Ha. In my head I look like Roger Federer.
In reality I’m still a sweaty mess
I was fatigued going into the uber, so once I hit the alp it was game over.
Volcano was mentally tough, once I got riding with someone else everything got faster and easier.
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Mega Pretzel for me, well, the first 40 miles of it, legs weren’t really feeling it, head definitely wasn’t feeling it, binned it!
I did a B cat Pretzel race. Shocked myself being in the lead group of A’s but of course they were just rolling to the KOM.
Watched all the riders around me go 5w/kg + and went backwards. Reached top of Radio Tower in 47th.
Race was completely blown apart so it was fun; picked off a few then gradually we formed a group and taking pulls each we reeled in a few more.
Reached 2nd KOM climb with a group of 7; that group also blew on the climb I ended up around the middle of them.
Picked one more off on the final flat 5 miles to finish 31st o/a, 6th B with a 200 TSS ride at just under 3.5w/kg in 2hrs 13mins.
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Interesting, fan from behind?
Done. On my warm down now. Pleased to sneak under 5:30, and really pleased with my final climb.
Garmin is telling me I burnt 3150 calories. Beer!!!
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Was looking at the numbers at the end of Crit City race B cat just now: the guy who won put out 410W for 20 minutes, which was 3.8w/kg. That means he weighs 108kg, which is 40kg more than me! No wonder the dude can produce some power, he must be built like Giant Haystacks.
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Thighs like that German track sprinter perhaps?
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More like Xenia Onatopp , the James Bond thigh crusher villain
He may have finished 47 places in front, but I consoled myself that he probably hadn’t already run 18km this morning 
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Robert Forstermann?
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Ticked off the NY Bagel course and picked up the green cardigan on the way. Only got about 3 on that miserable course left now, might do one later on.
Took about 70 minutes.
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Just cleared 10 laps of volcano, nice easy 27 miles in the legs
I just have the 6 train left on NY. Fuck that course, never going back to it once done.
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Should only be about 20 more minutes then.
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Nice one. I was thinking of doing it myself, I presume you just pick the volcano course and it keeps sending you round in circles?
How long did it take, just over an hour?
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After the Uber Pretzel yesterday, today was a 1 hour ride with the kids outside (I know, it doesn’t count), then back home to tick off:
- Richmond 2015 UCI Course
- Richmond Cobbled Climbs
- NYC Grand Central Circuit
NYC is so boring. I may set trainer difficulty to 10% to get through those courses, and just watch movies. Treat it a bit like Ironman base training at 68% intensity, or similar. Because there is literally no redeeming characteristic to NYC in Zwift.
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