Cycling race (MBO Score) 3:00:00 [5] * 46.0 km (3:55 / km) +1300m 3:26 / km
ahr:171 max:193
MBO score quest 2.0 at Whinlatter. I think this is the first 3hr I've done since the last D&W in March and with having a rest over summer I felt it a bit in the last hour. Quite hot for Cumrbia as well. Event was well planned with some controls which required a lot of thought as to how to put together, but suffered from poor maps and some misplaced controls. Two cost me time, one on the blue route which I take 75% of the blame for as I didn't remember to read any descriptions (been a while like I said) but I may have found it without if it had actually been in the centre of the circle - 2 mins gone. Then lost more like 6 mins on one where the track network was just wrong, and the control wasn't even on the correct side of the hill. After that had to work hard to get in on time, did it with 27s to spare despite noddys in the car park. Got the equal top score but was 23s slower than the other guy, but not bothered about that.
Managed 193 max HR despite measured max 188, this is 3rd time been over, may need a remeasure.
Weird thing that Garmin connect showing AHR 171, but this is also the moving average according to my new utility whereas I started the unit a fair time before I actually started. I wonder if this is because I started it before going in the hut to get start brief etc and the HR was out of range, and once I started moving I basically didn't stop. Interesting to have the utility though. Tells me I spent over half of the 3 hours in my zone 5 - above 175. Pretty hard work!