Went out tuesday after work, usual 'Bike Club' suspects (Me & Richie) and then Pocko decided to join us. He's a machine and usually does a lot of running, bit of a fitness nut. It's always hilarious trying to keep up with him once he gets 'in the zone' (he usually doesn't notice he's dropped you for a good 5-10 minutes)!
https://www.strava.com/activities/670296974
There was a headwind out so we decided on 2 mile stints, Richie did the
first,
Pocko took over and I struggled to get past him
for mine! I struggled a little and when it came time to drop I dropped. And kept dropping! Utterly buried myself on the hills to try and reel them in but I'd gone too deep and couldn't even hit 40mph on the descent.
Struggling solo into the headwind sucked, just after the turn they'd waited for me, but setting off again I was dropped within half a mile, utterly spent!
The next 15 mins I was struggling to find anything, pedaling squares and not able to maintain HR - definitely underfuelled/semi-bonked. The next
few miles I took steady, telling them not to hang around for me, I was able to recover slightly. I'd recovered enough to find a bit of form and the
last bit of ride back towards home/town was much more 'normal' for me (aided by some downhill!).
One painful ride and a real lesson in how much form/power I'd lost over the ~12 days when I was unable to ride very much due to moving house.
Looking forward (now that's all mostly over) to recovering form and getting some decent miles back in!
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Done!
