Hains Point Hämmerfest
Washington, DC, USA
Pulled for a bit on lap three but sat in on all the rest. Legs were a bit fatigued this morning even though I didn’t ride yesterday. Was hot, too - 82F at 5:30 am.
Missed this post and @Morzak’s above with the beautiful pics but I was really glad I did Alpe d’Huez before because at about bend 3 quitting suddenly entered my mind but I knew just 5 short bends (damn you frenchies, why can’t you count) more bends to the finish
Ugh, I’ve got one of those segments. I’ve got it starred for Garmin live segments, but it’s a smaller part of a longer climb I ride a lot and use as kind of a benchmark. Very annoying. Now I just need to remember to unstar the other segment. Which I could literally do right now in another browser tab, but probably won’t.
Six rides over four years within three seconds of each other. 
Competing against yourself if fun! And against others:
My 26 year old “adopted son” holds the KOM, thats the difference between 335W at 2.6W/kg and 343W from a Cat3 (in 2020) at something like 4.5W/kg 
But hey not too shabby for an old dude, the rest of the leaderboard is guys in 20s and 30s and 40s, so I could be their father or grandfather 
And really helps that the guy 1 year younger, the guy that podiums at NorCal races, he has never given that a full gas effort!
I prefer surprises and don’t show segments on my Garmin. On the bike I figured that one was right up as personal best, because I didn’t drop below 25mph at the top of the overpass.
Now that’s proper terrain for a mtb 
First three day block since May what was I thinking?! At least my mojo has returned, now it’s a slow slog to get fitness back up.
So the guy thought bought the tires, he is a year younger and retired. He has been hammering out 20 hours/week for at least 2 years, maybe 3, and isn’t getting faster. Because he does “~4 hour time trials” on every ride, on flat terrain. And is about to do a 10 day block of 4 hours every day.
When I arrived he was toast from the morning 4 hour ride. I’m like “my dude, you aren’t riding zone2 if you are beat down every day.” He said the younger guys laugh at his training, but he is old school and listens to Ian Boswell podcast and won’t get a power meter and won’t mount a bike computer on the bars of his Tarmac SL6. He doesn’t do any short intervals / high power work.
To my eyes this looks like a classic case of riding tempo all the time. We talked for 45 minutes, I gently offered some other points of view. Its sad to see someone invest so much time and not get faster 
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
What a change in weather, tonight was 26deg and sun compared to last week which was 12deg and rain! It was a PB night on the cards for the club TT. I was a bit gutted when only a time keeper was present and whilst he offered to push off and time I decided not to take up the offer and went for a standing start and ended up taking a hop too. Not the best of start, I went deep though and got a 1 sec PB (Lol, mister consistency).
Wait till you see my planned weekend ride 
In the morning it was out to Rutland with a local cycling group. Lol, the group was massive but only 8 chose to go to Rutland, its a bit hilly 
It was a nice under, under, over workout for me.
By way of a recovery in the afternoon I popped out for a flat gravel ride. The destination I had chosen had a strange beauty to it, it was a 2 mile long dead straight and flat drove but it went through the middle of a nature reserve.
