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26th April 2020 Mt. Biking: Ipswich area Wind Direction: SW Wind Stength: 8kts Surf / Sea State: n/a Air Temperature: warm Sea Temperature: n/a Weather: Sunny Max Speed: 11.32 av m (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 40.23 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) First time out for a few days due to many chores. All my rides are cardio training rides, using my MTB on roads, which was a bit busy today. In the quest for more speed/fitness I tried a couple of new things today. Refit the original skinny bone crusher seat and fitted clipless Shimano click R pedals, and some nice Shimano shoe. MTB clipless type (2 screws) are really easy to set up and use. 10 minutes practice and I racked the in/out operation. To be fair, I set the release on minimum grip, as suggested by the manual. The route is always the same whether 10, 20, 30, 40 miles so I can track my performance each ride against the other. The first 5 miles was slow, don’t know why, but was 5 mins down on PB - but continued same pace, as decided I would go for the 40 miles trip turning at Trimley. First on test was the bone crusher racing seat - it was awful for comfort. First 10 miles not too bad but after...I wore padded under garment and padded MTB shorts on top but was sore the whole journey - so will refit my wide heavy gel Selle gel seat. The second test was Shimano click R pedals (PDT-700) and they are brilliant. You have to measure carefully the clippies load point to avoid the metatarsal bones. Having had those bones corrected in operations, my measurement had to be very accurate. They are dead easy to clip in so would def recommend. First thing I noticed was the smooth cadence of clipless. Just cruising at say 15mph, my legs were rotating with a lot less effort compared to my old strapped front toe retaining pedals which cause sore toes and slips when getting aggressive. The knee was going up and down, instead of the usual swaying outwards. I didn’t have to consciously correct the drives. Also up slopes out of saddle work felt very much easier. Round onto a busy by pass Colchester road lost more time at the 10 mile mark, with my phone app reminding me I was behind PB! My backside was now extremely sore, so had to stop and reposition the padding, whilst adding my jacket over the saddle to help with padding. Cars were everywhere so lost time at lights and roundabouts. Heart rate fell below 100 on the way to the old Felixstowe road, so used the opportunity to feed and drink at 12mph. Getting a spurt on I pushed the HR up to 120 for the 20 mls mark at Trimley which unfortunately, I failed to beat my mate 1 hr 28, arriving at 1 hr 40 mins. The Shimano Click R spd pedal system was really helping ease the pain of the ride as normally I now would start feeling the knees at 25 miles as I headed up to the Purdis Heath golf club on a nice long road called Straight Rd, prob a mile long and kept cranking at 15mph. I was now in real pain from the awful bone crusher saddle - so had to do a fair bit of out of saddle work. I had to stop the interval speed training as too painful, when I hit the 30 mile mark 2hrs 34 min. Time wise this ride was a disaster, but it’s always nice when I turn away from Felixstowe with wind behind me cruising the bypass around Ipswich. I tagged on to a team of 3 drop heads, not going that fast for a couple of miles, who turned off and waved me on. Just as I built up speed on a long down slope I saw a long time friend out riding, so we had a great chat, riding slowly, so that was the end of the cardio set! Nice ride though hitting 40.23 miles in 3 hrs 33 mins averaging 11.32 mph |
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