Sunday Mountain Meyhem road Sportive - The Sunday Munch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqhWGVXCR_c110km route + a detour of about 10km due to lack of signs! Over 1500m of climbing.
Had a great ride today. This was a very devious route that managed to link up lots of climbs in the area and there are plenty! So despite only being 120km altogether it did feel longer.
I was really glad that I'd been doing the hill reps for the last few weeks as they really helped.
The video shows a reccee of the route and my "hill rep climb" is @ around 1:57 to 2:32.
We did have some fun trying to follow the route today. The map they gave out was on quite a large scale and it was impossible to work out many of the back lanes. There were lots of signs, but many tucked away around corners or appearing very last minute on descents. They used a few lanes around Malvern that I didn't know, so despite being the local girl and proudly wearing my VC Sevale (Malvern) strip, I managed to get caught in a group of about 30 riders that took a wrong turn heading out.........how embaressing!
Again descending better today and managing to pull away from people on them. The guys in my cycling club used to tear their hair out with me and descents. One guy even offered to disconnect them for me as he belived it would save me at least 5 minutes on our hilly time trial. How nice of him! The guy that used to coach me for triathlon once rode a descent elbow to elbow with me and nudged me ever time I touched the brakes. Needless to say that really did not help! No I think it was riding cyclocross that finally helped me.
Rode further and harder than if I'd gone out on my own, so feeling very pleased with myself.
And a good practice run for "The tour of the Black Mountains" which is not far off.....yikes!
Oh just had a look at the Goody bag that I got today. Original Source sponsors of Mountain Meyhem make Vegan products. Nice one!
http://www.originalsource.co.uk/