Prince William Forest Park, Woodbridge, VA, USA
First ride outside since the end of August. Hopefully not the last outside ride this year but I need to get the right gear. Perfect weather, really. Was a little cold at the start (45F) but quickly warmed up to 50-65F in the forest and hit 70F once I was back in Manassas.
Longest ride of the year. Funny how life gets in the way. In March I had a calendar full of events that I wanted to do, including almost one century each month, and one by one they got overcome by events. Oh well, lesson learned for next year to prioritize the ones I really want to do.
Bike (Fezzari Empire), wheels (Zipp 303S), drive train (SRAM Rival AXS), homemade carb mix, and training plan (FasCat 10-Week Weight Training, TR POL Base, TR Sweet Spot Base, TR Sustained Power Build, TR Century Specialty) worked flawlessly. Repeatability was key on this ride as I went around the Scenic Drive inside the park seven times, each one beginning with a 30-second anaerobic / VO2 effort to get up a 12% gradient followed by 1:00 threshold and then 17:00 of endurance / tempo / sweet spot to get around the loop. Repeat x7, then ride 25 miles home.
