So I went out on the Ringvaart to do some hill reps. Wind is forecast as force 6, mywindsock says it was 12.5-20.7m/s. Which works out at 45-74kph. Given a couple of gusts were enough to blow me to a stop, and the bit with a slight crosswind I was riding canted over at a 10-15° angle, the lower end of that certainly seems plausible. I had originally planned 4 minute efforts, with 2 minute "downhills", but given the wind was even stronger than expected, I did a last minute change down to 3 min up, and then 90 seconds spin at a high gear, there was just too much traffic to make turning round safe. I did 5 efforts in total. Which was bloody hard. Grinding away at 60rpm, and 150bpm yet at times struggling to make 13kph is pretty crazy. At the end I continued on an extra half km to the end of a known segment. The other day in light winds I did that segment as part of a HIIT session (part intervals, and part as the easy spinning between sets), my time on Tuesday was 12:34. Today, I managed 20:56. Having completed the segment, I spun round 200m up the road, took a run up, and did the reverse segment. The one I got a new PR of 10:41 on Tuesday on. Well today I averaged 36kph over the 4.95km distance, peaking at over 43kph... For the first time on this bike I hit top gear and found myself clicking away wondering why I wasn't going up a gear. I wondering if I could have given it a bit more and broken the 8 minute barrier. But hey, I'll take a 2:33 improvement on my time.
On Tuesday I reset my previous 11:00 goal at 10:00 I'm wondering what the hell to set my goal to now...
Strava link for anyone curious:
https://www.strava.com/activities/2197233418 J