Haha, hunt them down & conquer them! That's what I do!I think its almost certain I'll end up doing plenty of gradients like that, they are everywhere I go round here
Managed this on the MTB, although if it had gone on any longer I may have died, think average heart rate was about 188.
Is such a thing even possible? Walked it and even that was a struggle! The full thing was a bitch.
It's gonna be a painful summer
Mike Morris is somewhere around you, you'll probably find him on many of the leaderboards or come across him out riding. Tiny & funny guy, but a hill climbing machine!
They both have the same KISS pad, its ok but I was buying the previous year model Evoluzione for £40-45 which I feel is a fair price, not the full price. I don't find the pads comfortable for 'all day' but I do tend to suffer more than others. I've found them brilliant commuting shorts and ok for the occasional 2 hour+ detour on the commute home though!
I own two Volo jerseys so I'd probably buy the shorts, but only to match, as they have the exact same pads you're better off saving money with the Evoluzione... But equally see if you can find last years range on sale for even more saving.
Also, well worth buying 1 pair and wearing them for multiple hours before buying more!
Derp 312, not 321 lol
Yeah, it looks very attritional. Although it doesn't have Soller, Lighthouse or Sa Calobra so unless you've done all the big names (and happy with your times) I'd say skip it in preference! Such a hard day, it'd scupper any other big rides so prob worth doing on a short weekend, rather than as part of a full week? I do quite like the idea of riding the 'bottom' half of it - Soller down and then cutting back up through Bunyola, still around 70/80 miles. Avoids much of the long flat drags around & Puke Major.
