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5:30 am” 14 mile ride inside 7-8am: circuit class at Ault Park  8:20-12:45: drive to gatlinburg  2:00-4:15: ride….four KoM’s on Strava along with several intervals  Park Entrance Climb.  3;45, 373w  TN 416 from Emerts Cove to Hill Creek 1:25, 475 w Old Hills Creek to 321.  4236 for 49 seconds  Ogle Road to Mills Park

Saturday: 93 out side (SR 52 to Felicity, Bethel, Williamsburg, Owensville, Batavia) and 7 inside Sunday: off Monday: 14 inside early, then 60 minute circuit class, then to Cleves for intervals and one lap on the tt course

Went to Batavia today to get the 132 ti binning segment on Strava. Its 3.17 miles on 222. Rode it in 6:43, 360 watts, 28.2 mph for the new KoM by about 11 seconds. 

All went well with power in the that 383-390 range; and a good exaplme of NP vs Avg power with the former at 298 for an hour and the latter in the 220’s. In a time trial they would pretty much the same. With this on and off interval set its a good example of

These were on the schedule for next week but given the time in Tennessee riding I pushed these to today. Shooting for 400 watts on each and pretty much there. 

Spent the day riding from Gatlinburg to Clingmans Dome to Cherokee NC and back, 100 miles and 10,500′ of climbing. A completely exhausting day, especially from Cherokee up to Newfound. Hiked 9 miles yesterday and then rode in the pm. Combined with Wednsday, I’ve ridden 160+ miles and hiked 15 in about 54 hours. 

Scheduled to do  7 x 2 minutes, 2 between but used some segments here in TN to put together a 1:46 ride with a mix of less than 1 minute to 4+ minute efforts 1:06 at 444 watts, 321 to covered bridge…already have this KoM 1:44 at 413,on Emmert Cove Road to 416 KoM; 4:41

Did 5 trips up Heekin with the goal being 380-400. Fell off on the last couple but overall a big week with a couple of days doing the 5k’s out of Batavia and also some indoor intervals. And about 16 hours working on the trails at Ault Park. As for Strava, the 3:00 time up

Nice day so I went back out t o see if I could get a KoM on the 4 mile course out of Batavia. I was goin after the 3.17 mile section and ended 3rd all time, first in age, but I did get the koM on the 3.73 mile section. I’m looking for comfort,