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Today was finally worth reporting. A big race in luxemburg with teams
from sweden, norway, germany etc. including continental teams. The
course was 8km laps with a 1km climb and a lot of wind, rain, hail.
Epic.
First two laps I was conserving energy, patiently waiting for the race to fall into pieces. A lap later the climb coupled with everyone in the gutter breaks the peloton into several groups. I jump from the second group to the first group where we now have 25 riders. Going up the climb (not my strength, I was hanging on for dear life) guys are flying out the back. My team mate (30+ 2005 world champ) attacks at the top, a group of 10 goes and I bridge up solo. The break is composed of 3 team mates, 6 continental riders, and two random riders. The pace isnt too hard except for on the climbs. I feel comfortable and try not to do any more work than the others. Lap after lap still hanging on the back of the climb. Until 7 laps to go (56km) my team mate attacks with two other riders after the group got a little crazy with some eyeballing and skipping turns. The three are gone and my other team mate insists on attacking, I ride tempo on the front and my team mate flies past. Taking 3 riders with him. Bad move, now im isolated and have 56km to ride. I slowly drop my companions and am in a full out time trial try to get back to the 2nd group of 4 up the road. I catch one dropped continental rider then another. The gap bounces between 20 and 30 seconds after 3 laps. The tank is slowly running on empty as I battle the head wind at a constant 360w. Then boom, I hit a wall. And realise im screwed. I look back in desperation (only 24km to go) and a new team mate is coming, unfortunately this was close to base of the climb and I had 0 time to recover from my 32km effort. Damn, I get popped right at the bottom as I fight towards the top with only the cheers of the people keeping me going. Another 8kms later and the chase group catches me. I recover, sprint, and end up 22nd, 32 finishers, 5th u23. Again, great effort just missing that result. It will come soon! I was dissapointed not to have finished in the top 10, something I think I should have deserved but oh well. Its only march. The form is slowly coming and im looking forward to the races to come. Btw Kim Kirchen won this race when he was younger, maybe next year.
Btw power junkies, 3hr race with avg. of 300w. Peak 20min NP 394w. Peak 30min NP 369w. Peak 1hr 361w. TSS of 244.
Yes records!
First two laps I was conserving energy, patiently waiting for the race to fall into pieces. A lap later the climb coupled with everyone in the gutter breaks the peloton into several groups. I jump from the second group to the first group where we now have 25 riders. Going up the climb (not my strength, I was hanging on for dear life) guys are flying out the back. My team mate (30+ 2005 world champ) attacks at the top, a group of 10 goes and I bridge up solo. The break is composed of 3 team mates, 6 continental riders, and two random riders. The pace isnt too hard except for on the climbs. I feel comfortable and try not to do any more work than the others. Lap after lap still hanging on the back of the climb. Until 7 laps to go (56km) my team mate attacks with two other riders after the group got a little crazy with some eyeballing and skipping turns. The three are gone and my other team mate insists on attacking, I ride tempo on the front and my team mate flies past. Taking 3 riders with him. Bad move, now im isolated and have 56km to ride. I slowly drop my companions and am in a full out time trial try to get back to the 2nd group of 4 up the road. I catch one dropped continental rider then another. The gap bounces between 20 and 30 seconds after 3 laps. The tank is slowly running on empty as I battle the head wind at a constant 360w. Then boom, I hit a wall. And realise im screwed. I look back in desperation (only 24km to go) and a new team mate is coming, unfortunately this was close to base of the climb and I had 0 time to recover from my 32km effort. Damn, I get popped right at the bottom as I fight towards the top with only the cheers of the people keeping me going. Another 8kms later and the chase group catches me. I recover, sprint, and end up 22nd, 32 finishers, 5th u23. Again, great effort just missing that result. It will come soon! I was dissapointed not to have finished in the top 10, something I think I should have deserved but oh well. Its only march. The form is slowly coming and im looking forward to the races to come. Btw Kim Kirchen won this race when he was younger, maybe next year.
Btw power junkies, 3hr race with avg. of 300w. Peak 20min NP 394w. Peak 30min NP 369w. Peak 1hr 361w. TSS of 244.
Yes records!
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Frank Schleck
01:14 PM on March 30, 2009
<span style="font-size:24px"><span style="color:darkblue;"><i>b]Maybe if you were as man as me then you would just have ripped everyone's face off and averaged 301w opposed to that weak 300w average.</b></i></span></span>
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mangus
07:47 PM on April 05, 2009
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