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20th July 2020 Mt. Biking: Ipswich to Trimley Wind Direction: SW Wind Stength: 8kts Surf / Sea State: n/a Air Temperature: warm Sea Temperature: n/a Weather: Sunny Max Speed: average 12 Distance Covered: 50.02 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) Milestone for me today since the Covid lockdown, when I started biking for training as gym was closed and no windsurfing. I have been using 2 bikes a Hybrid / MTB and a full carbon road bike, a Focus Cayo 2.0. Today I cracked 50 miles non-stop (unlike some of the bikers on Strava who rests and continue to maintain high speeds). Today was trial day for the road bike, because I have been travelling as fast on the MTB over 30 miles. Keeping the road bike didn’t make sense due to lack of room to keep it, as well as the extra costs maintaining 2 bikes. The Carbon bike had to beat the MTB or its a goner, and it was target day for the 50 miles, having done 8 rides at 40 miles. Stocked up with 2 water bottles and a muesli bar the temperature was perfect, slightly cool, but unfortunately there was a breeze from the south so I knew that direction would be a problem, but fortunately the first 10 miles was wind behind me. The route was my normal down to Sproughton / Claydon then a big climb via Henley road to North Ipswich and Purdis Heath down to the Old Felixstowe road and Trimley, turning at the A14 round about in Trimley. Things started great and PB the first 5 in 21.36 then PB the next 5 towards North Ipswich in 20.01 my fastest times ever. HR was running 130 so I was well in my Cardio / Performance HR zone again longest have kept it there. 20 miles took 1 hr 20 mins when my previous best was 1 hr 28 mins. Well impressed. The road bike was pumping and as I only used the MTB flat out a couple of days ago, then fitness were roughly the same. The MTB is setup so comfortable for touring, and I tried to tweak the settings on the road bike to mimic the MTB, and it’s definitely a huge difference. By 20 miles normal I had bum ache on the road bike but today was OK, not as comfy as the suspension bike but OK, no real pain, as in the past. The last PB target was 30 miles and I had to face the dreaded southerly breeze twice as I looped the old Felixstowe road back to the Sainsbury round about twice to gain the mileage. Think I should have continued deep into Felixstowe keeping the breeze behind me. I started losing time and twice had to give way to oncoming traffic on the narrow bus / cycle route road to Trimley, so had a little bad luck. Lost 7 mins on the last 20-30 miles (47 mins) but still a PB doing the 30 miles in 2 hrs 16 which my app was saying averaged just under 14 mph. My best for 30 miles was 2hrs 18 mins but I lost at least 5 mins due to the buses and 2 stops at Sainsbury roundabout today, so it was def a faster ride and in fact the app was saying 14.2 mph average up to the stops. Looping the old Felixstowe road twice was soul destroying and I had to dig really deep to 40 miles, having now used all my 2 bottles of water and sweet bar. The Ipswich bypass was heaving with traffic and caught all lights, with one car nearly running me over when they jumped the red light. Now decided to fit a go pro on the helmet as some drivers are quite mad, completely ignoring the fact that am in a bike lane, yet the squeeze into the lane to undertake right turning traffic! In fact the car wing mirror just touched my arm! The next 10 miles (from 30 miles) was extremely hard and took almost 50 mins as I tried to recover, just spinning the pedal with no conviction and my speed went below average at 10 mph. 50 miles was a long way from my mind at that point. I fell off at Purdis Heath luckily on a grass verge with only a few brambles. I clipped my pedal as I tried to drain my last dregs from the water bottle! I didn’t have enough energy to chase overtaking bikers so hit 40 miles in a slow 3 hrs. I dropped 12 minutes and now having recovered a bit need to press on with the downhill sections (but into wind). The long ride from Claydon to Sproughton was gruelling and lonely but with the end in sight I kept going arriving home with 50.02 miles in 4 hrs 12 mins on the app. Think with better luck and tactics I can do it in 4 hours comfortably. Great ride and good experience. Will now record all dimensions on both bikes just incase as they are setup up good. Just had a little wrist pain on the road bike with the left wrist a little swollen, but knees and bum fine. Think I will stick to 30 milers and if I do 50 miles I will have a break at Felixstowe as I think I could make up the stop time being a bit fresher. 50.02 miles = 4hrs 12 mins, average just under 12 mph, calories 4708. Max HR 143 average 111. The 30 mile average was 14.2 mph |
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