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[@Morehills840]

Good one.

[@brutalclimb]

Good race

[@schinzilord9932]

Hi, just my opinion as food for thought: 1. why no warmup? You are spending 8min talking at 0.5W/kg. Try 5min gradual increase to FTP, 1min at 1W/kg, then 2-3 10s bursts, recover for 2min, then start. Then you are both mentally and physically ahead of the game. 2. it is not smart for you to punch it at the climbs from the back. Reasoning: you are lacking punch, every punch burns a match, after 20min you are dropped because you are lacking sustained punch. Try it different: before each litte climb increase your speed with slightly above FTP, go up as first or second, then slowly drift back while climbing, while others are burning matches with their punches. Repeat on each climb until the last one, where you then have enough matches left to go with lead group. See time and power as your variables. For how long you can apply a specific power is determined by your physiology. Be smart, save your resource which is the least available (higher power for shorter durations) and replace by more sustainable resource. What do you think?

[@brutalclimb]

That's a very good tip. It's slightly different than what Im doing althought not by much, but I will try this. However, I have been more offensive on this route for some reason than I am at others because it have helped me keeping up for longer. I am warming up btw. I put in 20-30 minutes before hand. I'm just not filming it. I'm just cooling it down a bit doing the intro.

[@schinzilord9932]

Good luck in trying it out! Racing is all about energy conservation….until it isn’t, then it is all in 🎉