Audax rides

A more comfortable ride is less likely to allow you to achieve a higher top end speed. It'll also convert a bit less power to up on a hill.

On the other hand a more comfortable ride will be less draining on the body so over distance you'll be able to keep up a consistently higher output.

You do way more audaxes than I'll ever do, I'm usually on the comfort boat as after the second day of riding, it's much more relaxing letting the bike soak up the vibration and just concentrate on pedalling.

The hardest thing I've done is to disassociate the road buzz equal fast, once I got used to the bike, I don't want to ride anything but that bike.