Girona gran fondo hill climb 2017 - a very short note
The Girona Gran Fondo has three events. Today we took up the challenging Hill Climb. It is a very simple uphill time trial up Els Angles, the nearest and dearest small mountain around here.
The specs are: 10.4km, elevation difference about 430 meters, with some 6-8% sections and even with two shorts downhill sections. And today it was 36C. Not exactly cold.
I have been celebrating my new job as the chief architect of the Municipality Financing way too much. Celebrating means - at least for me - beer and food. So, by first being very stressed by the interview process and then celebrating, I have rather well destroyed any fitness I had after winter. Oh well.
Anyhow, one must rise to the occasion. Or something. Up I went, as fast as I could. Many faster - and skinnier, younger and older - cyclist went past me. But I did not mind. My only goal was to ride as fast as I ever could. And so I did: my average heart rate was 175bpm, with the last 2 km being around 185bpm. Both rather high compared to my max bpm og 193.
I do not know how long it took me to reach the top. Too long. An eternity.
Some beer and wine, a lunch, back down, nap, massage and hanging out reading The Times etc. Easy afternoon.
Good day. Tomorrow is going to be very hot, 37C!
The specs are: 10.4km, elevation difference about 430 meters, with some 6-8% sections and even with two shorts downhill sections. And today it was 36C. Not exactly cold.
I have been celebrating my new job as the chief architect of the Municipality Financing way too much. Celebrating means - at least for me - beer and food. So, by first being very stressed by the interview process and then celebrating, I have rather well destroyed any fitness I had after winter. Oh well.
Anyhow, one must rise to the occasion. Or something. Up I went, as fast as I could. Many faster - and skinnier, younger and older - cyclist went past me. But I did not mind. My only goal was to ride as fast as I ever could. And so I did: my average heart rate was 175bpm, with the last 2 km being around 185bpm. Both rather high compared to my max bpm og 193.
I do not know how long it took me to reach the top. Too long. An eternity.
Some beer and wine, a lunch, back down, nap, massage and hanging out reading The Times etc. Easy afternoon.
Good day. Tomorrow is going to be very hot, 37C!
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