Not flat endurance ride (https://www.unbiciorejon.com/2019/02/javiers-ride-classification-criteria.html)
Riding all day at what I'd describe as a slow cooking pace.
That pace is not slow but it is not super fast either. A pace that feels sustainable for ages, still a strong pace.
A pace that kept the three of us together in the climb to Taxa but left me with a feeling of I have spent a bit too much.
A pace at which aero counts. And that means that I wasn't the cleveres of the group putting on my rain jacket for the descent. I felt like riding with an open parachute all the way to the coffee stop.
A coffee stop that got me having a coffee because I knew the slow cooking pace was getting me.
A coffee that gave me enough energy to attack the Escamplero full of energy. I went for a PB.
Only to blow in pieces less than 1km from the top. Slow cooking pace took a bit less than 130km to have me done.
And the two psychopaths I was riding with kept the pace all the way to the top. 45 seconds faster than me in less than a kilometer.
With my pride wounded I attacked every single ramp from there.
Just fireworks though. The psychopaths kept the pace and by the time we finished I was completely cooked.
Mr. "Endurance is my game", less than a month of declaring himself in the form of his life (https://www.unbiciorejon.com/2022/08/i-am-in-form-of-my-life.html), ten days after finishing LEL (https://www.strava.com/activities/7633370774/) slow cooked by a couple of Asturian psychopaths.
I think I'm going to declare myself a sprinter when I'm in Asturias.
Those Asturians are up for a rude awakening :-)
The ride in Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/7680177261/
Take care
Javier Arias González
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