Thursday Night - Hour of Power

Am retard. Way too early need to learn numbers

just re-saved like a bajillion pngs. heading out imminently!

Giggedy giggedy, I did the whole hour.

Geared with brakes is so much better. Where did everyone disappeared at the end?

That was a good blast peoples!

6pt, thanks for not bringing gears....

Spotted: Texas, buy a bigger chainring. ;)
Spotted: JD - amazing colour. Outstanding.
Spotted: Jaygee - hiding in a fitzrovia boozer....weak ;)

Nice seeing you all even if only very briefly, had started an hour earlier. At the end I drafted a guy with Zipp wheels for two laps which I happily stopped when I saw Justin at Gloucester Gate. I might be back.

I had good sensations in my legs tonight :)

Few fast solo laps, some weird shit in the Inner Circle, then another couple of laps. Everyone and their mother was in the park tonight.

Thanks for the tow. Much needed. I think I peaked in March, I'm getting slower and everything hurts more. But all the familiar faces make me smile.

some weird shit in the Inner Circle

I spluttered around Kent this evening, 28 miles at a pathetic 18mph avg. Feel like I rode twice as far.

I think I could do with some of this 'weird shit'.

Nice seeing you all even if only very briefly, had started an hour earlier.

same here, done about 5 laps before meeting you lot.

Thanks for the tow. Much needed. I think I peaked in March, I'm getting slower and everything hurts more. But all the familiar faces make me smile.

Happy to oblige :)

You've just over-reached a bit, is all. Your legs need time to digest all the miles you crammed in (at medium to medium-hard intensity) during spring. Volume training works, but mainly for 3 types of rider:

1. Pros and semi-pros.
   
2. Long distance specialists with a massive and unchanging commuter basemile regime (i.e. rural round trip of >40 miles per day).
   
3. More mature riders with years of racing and training in their legs.
   
   

What you need is a nice 2 week break from anything other than gentle commuting (make it a challenge if you have to by setting goals like not breaking a sweat or *keeping max speed under 16mph**), and a generous allocation of sleep, water, and food.

I'm getting envious already.

*running something like 60" fixed, or small ring only on a geared rig helps

Wise words. I think I'm going to do that 1st...

Oh yeah. The noise of that carbon disc on the Cervelo TT bike was rather wonderful.

I thought that too, as I overtook it on my fixie wixie with 32h box rims.