I deliberately haven’t attempted the 10 mile quest for a few weeks as I have been busy increasing distance up to most recently, 40 miles.
As the daughter needs picking up from school at 9 and I didn’t get home until nearly 7, I decided a short ride was needed - so a ten miler was in order. However, as I did 10 miles on Tuesday, and tonight is supposed to be an intermediate ride, I decided the faster ride was needed.
All throughout the ride I was monitoring my left knee, which has always been problematic. There were no twinges and no pain, so I continued to hammer out the ride, and completed it in 21 minutes 58 seconds, 6 seconds quicker than my previous best of 22 minutes and 4 seconds. This time I concentrated on maintaining a smooth cadence (somehwere around 85-86rpm) and maintaining a similar position on the bike throughout (in order to simulate a time trial).
Overall it was pretty pleasing, except knowing that Keith from KB Cycles does the same training ride in 18 minutes at a higher power.
Oh well…
Tags: 10 Mile Quest, Time trial