I participated in my last competition of the season on Saturday! October 6th! during the Salbert climb. This year I know it well since I have done all my wheel tests there for the past 6 weeks! i.e. around thirty climbs! A short 4 km climb! it is directly the VO2/PMA capacities that are required since it is an effort of less than 10 minutes for the best. The objective is to try to beat my 2010 Salbert Climb 2012 record of 10’01 / 357w.
This year I achieved a best of 343w towards
The end of May but I have never tried anything since. It must be industry email list said that my training cycles! rather oriented towards critical endurance and threshold! do not necessarily make me want to go and confront this kind of very difficult time trial where you have to be at full capacity and in oxygen debt for 10 minutes. To make matters worse! I have been Salbert Climb 2012 dragging a cold for almost 15 days and so my load has dropped a lot recently. I had to take it easy to try and be okay in this time trial because I couldn’t get myself back on track.
The fall
If you still want to train to limit the knowing the host blogs audience damage! well! you won’t get better!
Too bad! an adapted cycle since the last time trial of the Col Amic would have been welcome. A very high intensity training with intervals of 3 to 5 min @350w could be suitable but impossible to achieve when the irritated bronchi sound the alarm (tried once! not twice..). So I arrive with relative freshness but without great sensations for this last meeting. Hervé lent me his magical Lightweight for the occasion. I settle around 350w but quickly I feel that after only 4 minutes of effort the strength is lacking! the legs are already burning. Impossible to crush the pedals. We can clearly see it on the curve! I switch to windmill mode on the second part leading to a malaysia numbers list completely disordered climb in terms of watts and cadence. Catastrophic performance.