Was Festive 500, now it's 8 Cols in 8 Days Challenge

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,486
    Peyresourde in 58:36 @ average 3.04 W/kg.
    Easier power z3 effort (2.5 w/kg?) planned to finish tomorrow but in the afternoon.
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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,325
    pblakeney said:

    Peyresourde in 58:36 @ average 3.04 W/kg.
    Easier power z3 effort (2.5 w/kg?) planned to finish tomorrow but in the afternoon.

    I’d like to have a proper dig at the Alpe, trying to do it in an hour, but legs are patchy at the moment… they’ve been overworked for the past couple of weeks… we’ll see

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,486
    My PB is 1:09:41 which was a paced effort and I've improved since then.
    Tempting to go for the hour but CBA. Hogmanay* is a long day/night too. 😉

    *Visiting my Scottish Dad.
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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,325
    59.22… would have been quicker if it didn’t route you up the upper part of the sky resort for no reason… I think the climb was 55 minutes something
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,486
    ...and done. A slow 1:19:15 @ 2.83 w/kg average. Liking the average of 139 BPM too.
    Most impressive is the total calorie offset of 9647. I don't care if it not accurate, it takes some energy for an 82 kgs rider to go up these climbs. 😃
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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,325
    Well done… 3 completions in its first year :)
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  • me-109
    me-109 Posts: 1,915
    Well done all. Ugo, you'll have to give it a snappy title and design a Strava badge for it. Call it something like 'Eighters gonna eight'. You can then try to make sure the chosen cols (other names are available) adds up to 8000m climbing.
  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,798
    In terribly unfashionable style, I did the Festive 500. 508km, all outside. :)
    2020/2021/2022 Metric Century Challenge Winner
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,325
    carbonclem said:

    In terribly unfashionable style, I did the Festive 500. 508km, all outside. :)

    Well done, it was very mild, but crap until the last few days… I wouldn’t have enjoyed it…

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  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,798
    ugo.santalucia said:

    carbonclem said:

    In terribly unfashionable style, I did the Festive 500. 508km, all outside. :)

    Well done, it was very mild, but censored until the last few days… I wouldn’t have enjoyed it…

    Yes, really tiresome to be honest. I guess once you’ve done it the distance challenge isn’t really there, so it becomes a bit of a slog.
    2020/2021/2022 Metric Century Challenge Winner

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