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I used the climb to Fighting Creek Gap (Laurel Falls Trail Head) starting at the park boundary with Gatlinburg for the first tempo effort. Took me exactly 23 minutes from the park border to the top averaging 295 watts, HR around 145. The next effort started at Sugarlands and went towards the Chimney Top picnic […]

Another night right at 27 mph avg. Rode with just one other rider at 5:30 and then timed the other 26 riders at 7:00. A little hard to get motivated with just one other rider on the course and with just one more event left.

Felt a little of yesterdays power test when I started off on these but settled in for some decent results: 325, 337, 335, 331 and 342. On the last one I had some other riders that I wanted to pass so I put in a little extra effort. Heart rate in the upper 140’s to

Todays efforts were just below 5 watts/kg at 4.94. Need to reach 385 watts average to be at 5. The one hour power at 341 would be around 4.4 watts/kg.

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I looked forward to this all week. Rode the first one at 377 and that includes going out almost 2 minutes too long ending at 9:53. I was so locked into the average watts that by the time I thought about checking the time I was way over. Held 381 for 8 minutes on the

Was planning on an easy day but found five 5 minute steady states on the schedule. I used flat Riverside Drive for these. The goal was upper end of the zone of 319-334. Actual power ended up being 336, 337, 333, 330 and 335 with HR hitting 150-155 or 82-85% OF max. Time between was