Tell us about your weekend ride

Is it the first time you've done a big ride like that on the BMC? Could be related to fit? Maybe? Idfk.

Yeah, it was. I had the bike fit professionally though, so that should be good. I'm actually going to email him today, to find out if the fit could have been a factor, and what he recommends.

^^^you've might have ridden all the rolling false flat hills you've mentioned a little too hard, turning the ride in to 15-20 small intervals which you might not be used to. Or maybe it's that time of the month.

No false-flats in Cornwall! It's just 10-15% grades, one after the other, over and over again. But yeah, the hills are definitely efforts. I'd do interval training on the flat... if there was any flat land around here!

I've done the 160k route of the North Cornwall Tor and it is the hardest ride I've ever done! and that includes 200k plus days in the Alps. Maybe you are a bit like me, in that I can climb <6% ramps all day, but a reasonable amount of >10% will empty my legs in no time. There are many climbs (quite short) at 20% and greater on the N.C.T. and there is very little flat in between the climbs. My Garmin had 3900m of climbing at the end of the ride.

It is beautiful though. Chapeau for getting through it!

Exactly this. The long climbs in Japan were fine, because they were at most 4-8% average, but not very rampy. You go all the way up to 500-1000m, but you can sit and spin up them to save your legs. Then you get a screaming 1000m descent and a flat bit before the next climb. The Cornish hills offer you no such luxury, do they?!

But yeah, stunning scenery. And double-chapeau for getting through the 160km one - effort!

Plenty of pasties and fudge though.

Large pasties would be Perfect for jersey Pockets.....................

........I miss pasties :(

Beautiful peppery bastards...