Nov 10. Twenty minute time trial.

We did a little over 50k this morning.

It included a five minute time trial  followed by  fifteen minutes at endurance pace, then a twenty minute time trial by yourself - as fast as you can go. 

Easterly cross wind , not hindering but not helping much either.

The longest interval we've done previously was ten minutes so I wasn't sure exactly what to expect or exactly how hard to go out. The ten minute ones are hard enough themselves.

This one , you crank it up and you are already looking at your clock after 3 minutes, starting to panic!.

The problem is once you are at 10 minutes on whatever speed you are averaging you don't want to lose any of that average speed you've worked so hard to achieve so you have no choice but to smash yourself for the second ten minutes after u r already in some discomfort.

It's mucus across your face hard.

I averaged 37.8kph. Brends gone a fair bit quicker but he's working from a powermeter for average power versus avg speed so not sure of his exact number.

 The rule of thumb is that whatever you can do by yourself for twenty minutes is what you can theoretically hold (or close too) for an hour in a race. Time will tell how accurate that is.

That's at least one of the base rides in the bank to get a gauge on where we currently are.

Tomorrow's a rest day  for riding so I'll do the last uk post . 

Joeys mentioned today that she nodded off reading yesterday's post with the inference I guess that the training posts are only going to be of limited interest to anyone who is willing to read absolutely anything about sport. 

I think she's suggesting that if cycling or sport isn't your thing you might want to unsubscribe  for the next few weeks at least and just visit manually if and when the subject matter offers a little more.

On a related but unrelated topic how do France manage to cause the mighty All Blacks so much trouble. They had won two games this year before last night and  I think they lost to Italy and /or Scotland yet got within a try of a draw with the black machine. They're taking years off my life. 

Later.

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