Barnet Highway - tempo

Was going to go out and do Ford Road as a tempo ride.. Got halfway across Coquitlam, and ran into wet roads... less than 2k east and there had apparently been a very hard thunder shower...

So followed that sage advice "go west young man" and discovered that everything west of here was totally dry.. So had a fairly pleasant ride out Barnett.

I haven't been doing it lately because the far end is under re-construction and cleanup from the big oil spill last month (contractor digging hole hits oil pipe line...) But other than not being able to do the last kilometer it is a reasonably pleasant ride.

Hopefully they will get the last klick back to normal before it gets too cold. I'd like to do at least one final ride on it as a 10K TT test. I had got my time on that down to 15 minutes. Be nice to see if I can get a bit lower than that. But impossible to ride as TT as two lanes of traffic are currently being funneled into one lane with about a 1 foot shoulder...

Today was tempo ride, just trying to get ATL back up to CTL Overall I want to keep CTL at about the current level (79) for the next two weeks as I have 4 races (last Ryder TT this Wed, RR and ITT next weekend, RR the week after..) That more or less finishes the RR season. There are some small club TT's after that, and I'll probably do a 200k randeneuring event but that's about it until Track season starts up in October.

So keep CTL level for two weeks. Then build CTL for 4-8 weeks which gets us into the wet weather and track season.

It gets hard to keep CTL up in Vancouver in Nov/Dec as we tend to have very wet and cold fall weather.. So it's track racing once a week. And training on the Computrainer or at the track to try and keep CTL from dropping too much until we start training in January for the Spring Series which is in March.


Entire workout (136 watts):

Duration: 1:53:56 (2:08:49)
Work: 928 kJ
TSS: 80.9 (intensity factor 0.653)
Norm Power: 209
VI: 1.54
Distance: 41.21 km
Elevation Gain: 584 m
Elevation Loss: 592 m
Grade: -0.0 % (-8 m)
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 569 136 watts
Heart rate: 0 0 0 bpm
Cadence: 25 102 62 rpm
Speed: 0.6 49.9 21.7 kph
Pace 1:12 100:00 2:46 min/km
Altitude: 7 207 67 m
Crank Torque: 0 88.6 21.6 N-m
Temperature: 18 22 19.5 Celsius