Not all bad. 4 laps at about 20 mph, last one flat out at 22. Not a patch on 2007, but not quite as bad as I feared. Based on the HRM, I'm 25% less efficient than I was, taking 1390 calories for the whole thing, rather than 990. Letting the other roadies flow past me hurt - I'd have had them in the past, no problem. I won't take long to get everything sorted....
My goal is this:
Tour d'Afrique Ltd. | Global Bicycle Expeditions, Races and Toursmaybe next year. Might settle for something more sane next year, and go for this the year after.
Edit. I've downloaded the graphs. 4 days after the Etape in 2007, I did 5 laps of the park at 22mph average, with an average HR of 140 - so pretty much aerobic. Yesterday I did 5 laps at 20 mph average...with an HR of 160. That'll be quite some loss of fitness!