Cycling race (BoB road race) 2:20:19 [4] 75.0 km (1:52 / km) +250m 1:50 / km
ahr:163 max:184
Frustrating.
My own team mates blocked me from chasing thee Cycledalia attack at the first turn around. I yelled at them to go and they let a gap open so I yelled at them to move so I could get around.
Holly had a 15src gap until the downhill then it grew to 25. I chased solo for over 20k until we turned into a headwind and their gap grew a bit more so I sat up and waited for the Juventus woman who was maybe 30sec behind me. Mistake. My pace with her was significantly slower than my pace alone. Within 5k riding with Juventus holly and her two teammates gap grew to over 2min.
Coming into a small downhill Juventus stopped pedaling, I yelled to keep the gas on, then a car turned in front of us I yelled stop pedaling and we both hit our brakes slowing right down just in time to hit the uphill.
When we got the tail wind again I was able to push out pace back up to high 30s but I wasn't enough to close any gap.
Final straight stretch I kept upping the pace until the spirit at about 48km/Hr. I was within 100m of the finish when I notice a truck that appeared to not be moving on the finish line. People were yelling at him to get out of the way and he was just crawling by a sat up a bit and waved my arms like a crazy person then noticed a small line to his left and took that safely through very quickly without ploughing into him. He was about 100 years old.
Holly ended up finishing 6min ahead of me.
Ugh.
At the end Holly and her one teammate said to me "fuck man we thought you were going to catch us the whole time. We just kept hammering. What happened? Why didn't your teammates ride with you?"
Face palm.
I got a lot of congratulations for trying to chase down that attack solo for that long.
TJ yelled at my to push every time his race came around, which I appreciated but I just didn't quite have the gear to catch a freight train on my own.
I hit 73.2km on the downhill spinning at 140rpm. Holly hit 74.1 not spinning. I went up the hills faster but only by a few seconds.