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Having done what I feel is enough volume but lacking many solid long days I took yesterday afternoon off with the intention of riding a course with similar elevation to talinn at roughly race power and using race bike and nutrition..
Generally a successful day out, covered 165km in 4:47, not too far off 5 hour bike split pace, as the course was almost completely flat I was in aero position most of the time, the steady drip of liquid energy was pretty good but I think I’ll include some gels on the day to give me a bit of a surge when I’m feeling a bit of a lull…
All went swimmingly apart from the forecast one small shower was actually 2 deluges, tempt traffic lights on the course were vaguely annoying, as was the person who hit the cross button when I was the only thing on the road for 500m, but that’s his right I guess!
Lessons learnt were that my rear bottles weren’t bolted on well enough, I lost one but thankfully recovered it and the cage, I also failed to open one gel and ended up spending ages trying to bite through the packaging.
Ideally I’d like to have 4 bottles to start with (600m elevation in talinn so weight is completely unimportant!) so I’ve kicked in with my home brew bta mount as my arms are too close for all commercial options I can find…
Knocked this up with some 0.9mm stainless, ran out of the night size riv nuts so not got around to the second set of holes or quite worked out how to mount to my arm rests (I know the answer is drill some holes but carbon…)
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