Maximum Effort: Hungerford + Sky Stadium Crit 💥💥

Cruising recovery (3w/kg, 130HR)

Extra dose of suffering, all for the leaderboards

WHCS #5: Quick & dirty, the Southerly & Rainy edition

Evening Walk

120mg Caf / 400 Cals / ~1L Water
NP 330W
Crit Race NP 380W

Started out this morning with the intention of doing my final Mad Dawg of this year, but delayed start meant it was a rush straight out to Hungerford before heading to the WMCC Sky Stadium crit.

Legs felt good on the roll through town, but knew that Hungerford was going to hurt regardless. Came at it from the north with the tailwind, but first go saw my front derailleur stick a bit and not downshift when I expected so had to abort.

Second run was smooth, still no traffic. Carried good speed into the bottom, shifted chainrings and found that I was in the perfect cog to mash up the hill. Stood as soon as the gradient went up and was worried I'd fade, but held strong up past the turn before having to sit just before the top!

Quickly ticked off Houghton climb before zipped through town and getting to Sky Stadium in time to confirm we'd be combining A + B grades. Kept the legs moving by hitting up Old Porirua Rd, came back and waited for the rest of the Bs to arrive.

The crit start saw me as the sole A grader and 4 B riders. I led us out for the first few laps, easing into the effort. A couple laps in one of the older B riders took the south corner just a touch to wide and skimmed the wall, going down but was able to walk it off.

Me and the 3 young B riders neutralized/slowed up for 2 laps until certain he was ok, then carried on racing. While I was always on the front, I did bully the youngsters a bit (having a s solid 40+ KGs on them and this being a perfectly flat course). One hung on to my wheel for quite a while but eventually dislodged him at about the 25min mark.

My left leg was getting quite tight/seized from all the tension turning left all the time, once alone I focused / consciously relaxed it and gave it a stretch after which it came right. Managed to lap the youngsters over the remaining 10mins and watch their strong sprint finish!

Now almost 11am and with still ~7 climbs to do for my Mad Dawg, I decided to call it and do it tomorrow. Will be a nice finale ride especially with the pressure off now I've set my time for Hungerford! 😊

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Maximum Effort: Hungerford + Sky Stadium Crit 💥💥

Cruising recovery (3w/kg, 130HR)

Extra dose of suffering, all for the leaderboards

WHCS #5: Quick & dirty, the Southerly & Rainy edition

Evening Walk

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