I rode at Serra de Tramuntana, Mallorca, and it has to be one of the most beautiful places I have ever been to.
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What a fantastic looking ride! That last picture just makes me want to ride so much!
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Oh, how I envy you right now.
The decent down to the port and the subsequent climb are true cycling gems. Hope you’re having fun 
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Super nice, @Aeroiseverything! Since you’re there, why not get in some more base miles and hit nearly all the iconic views at once 
135 miles, nearly 3400m of climbing (over 11k’) (My go April 2017 -->)
If you’ll still be in the neighborhood – specifically on the mainland in Valencia next week – let me know. I’ll bring a tow rope and I can follow you up some local mountains.
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That’s the one off of google.
All my shaky iPhone photos I took during riding really didn’t do the utter beauty of these places justice.
But the last image nearly comes close.
Your tour looks crazy. 135 miles is madness, especially with 3k climbing.
plus I wasn’t real bright saving the biggest climb for the end. I still recall clearly climbing that hill when a much younger and very fit Norwegian (jersey suggested origin) blew past me, and then shortly after another. I still passed a couple of people but these guys… I hadn’t trained for that distance but it was still a fun solo ride. Enjoy the views and the food!
If you haven’t already done it, be sure to do Puig Major. This time of year, the pine trees lining that climb smell amazing.
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Tùnel de Monnaber is the name of the Puig major pass. Especially the area between that and Coll del Reis is one of the most beautiful places I have ever had the pleasure of visiting. 11/10
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An outing through Cambridgeshire in England yesterday. Making the most of the warm spell we are experiencing before it cools again for Easter. Lovely to get some colour in the arms and face. They’ve got a little pale and pasty looking over the winter.
Audax has restarted hence the distance and the fact it’s in kilometres.
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Wow! So beautiful!
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70km through the Trough of Bowland AONB today.
Up past Jubilee Tower.
Down past Abbeystead towards the Trough
Left at Dunsop Bridge (claimed to be the centre of Great Britain, more or less) then back through the Forest of Bowland towards Cross of Greet.
3 hours fasted probably wasn’t the best idea. Luckily I had a couple of gels, but I was running on empty for the last 30 minutes.
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^^Where, how fast, how far, how many watts all included. 10/10 post would read again. Great pix 
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Poppies and Otters, part 2:
@Cleanneon98 is that better?! Stupid scaling, all the bursts were >510W for 5-sec.
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Yaaaas strong flex with those outdoor intervals. I lack discipline for that
I’m working on increasing power while controlling the return to sweet spot wattages, getting pretty good at that like on this 3x15. Last burst was higher wattage because it was the first red light coming back into town and I was forced to stop.
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It was the club’s first chaingang in a bit (one bloke said 2 years). It was a short one to stay in the rules (county boundaries) but an awesome one.
The guy who said it was his first one in two years was smooth and strong but a little too strong and popped a few other riders. I tried to hold a steadier pace to let folk hold on but leaving the gap almost popped me, I had to miss a few turns and let him surge. A little bit later he went pop but he did well to chase back on 
22mph for 16miles before I started skipping turns and 21.1mph for the 19miles chaingang route. The Gabba was just too warm for that pace in 14deg. I’m glad I changed my leg warmers to knee warmers. But because of my chemo damaged nerve endings I opted for shoe covers, closed toe vents and neoprene gloves and it was definitely too warm for them too
I think I can see a few times where I needed to close the gap after his surges
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Don’t you people work? Riding in the middle of a weekday!
Er, after dropping off the daughter to go paddleboarding with a friend at 1p, I went out for a quickie that wasn’t as quick as it felt. It was a glorious day with so many cyclists, and groups of cyclists on the roads, and several spotted on trails visible from the car, that it could have been a mid-day Saturday not mid-day Tuesday.
First, where the 13yo daughter went paddleboarding. I’m frequently on the hills behind me and sometimes the hills in front of me on the gravel bike on the weekends.
My meager ride:
Taking out the 4mi climb with an overall average of 5%, which masks the last half-mile average of 11%, my average speed was a hair under 20mph. And though I thought I was cranking well on the climb, the only acknowledgment of any success compared to previous times was in that last half-mile where I did PR with 4:24 at 320w (which, erm, moved me up to 242nd overall, but 59th in my age group… I’ll need to do 410w to get 10th overall but only 338w to get 10th in my age group). Otherwise, this go was slower than my normal go on this route, insert sad face. It felt good though and the sun felt great.
Cruising along Lake Zurich.
Approaching the 11% climb (with street signs warning of 15%):
There’s still snow on the local hilltops, the fields are being fertilized, and the cattle are returning to pasture. Not only were cyclists out, but more convertibles with their tops down were cruising about.
It’s time to start returning to the plan and doing the outdoor versions of the prescribed workouts while I await the rollers to return from the factory. (I have little interest in getting on the tri bike on the kickr in the basement as I’m not doing a tri this year.)
And, my Garmin helpfully (cheerfully?) told me my FTP has dropped based on this ride. It’s still higher than the TR FTP (which needs to be retested), but that dig reinforced that my feeling of speed wasn’t matched by the data.
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So damn clean! I’m fine to hold close to target wattage on any kind of incline, but on the flat (with all the wind we have) and anything slightly downhill, I find it so hard to maintain target wattages, and usually coast through turns (bit of a wuss). It’s flat where I live, so yesterday I just did a 30 mile loop, but terrain and traffic in a couple of villages put me down into high Z2 for a couple of the intervals where I wanted to hold ~90%. Do you have ideal terrain or are you just an absolute boss at keeping it smooth (I assume the latter)? I tried all sorts of tricks like shifting and grinding away (just tires the legs out), sitting upright etc.
I think we’re going to have fast group rides start up soon, and although there’s no target wattages there, I think being smooth massively helps with efficiency.
