Weekend Rides June 24/25

[Chris Helwig]

Weekend rides will be as follows:

Saturday 9am from my place. 2-3 hrs 6 sprints on new sprint route. No distance or time limits of sprints. Fairly strict Z2 for remainder of ride.

Sunday 9am from my place 2-3.5hrs 2x20 min pieces. Glanworth road for first 20 min piece (we will risk the dog as this is a far superior 20 min piece route), second piece up the hill out of Delaware to Irish.

If weather is questionable I will post an update at 7:55 am.

Hope to see a good group out this weekend.

Chris

[Chris Helwig]

Thought I would write a short report on the weekend rides.

Saturday was sprints on the new sprint route. Great weather for a good sprint ride. A couple top riders including Graydon and Tony were absent, but a good group was out. Sibo was doing some hard leadouts and early jumps and took a few second places. Brownie is stronger by the week and took 3 wins. I took the other 3 wins with a few close sprints. MTB rider Jason looked strong on his first group ride with some top 3 finishes and Wannabe was in the mix. Unfortunately Ted Mooney had a bit of a spill near the end. He is ok, but will be off the bike for a few days.

Sunday was another great weather day. We set out to do 2x20 min Z4 pieces. The echelon on the first piece was at a good pace with Vedov, Forsdike, Jason and Brownie looking particulary strong. With the tailwind we must have been over 40 km/h and nearly ran out of road. The second piece started with a fairly steady climb of the Delaware hill. At the top the pace whipped up for what seemed like a pretty hard piece. Again some fast speeds as the Superstar was in the mix with Wannabe doing some pulling.

Overall some great training for the weekend.

Chris