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Saturday Jun 10, 2017 #
Event: Muthill Sportive
10 AM
Elliptigo 2:19:01 55.04 km (23.8 kph) +638m
ahr:145 max:163 shoes: Elliptigo
Muthill Sportive on the Elliptigo! Well, the Challenge (34 miles) - not fit enough to "run" for 4h30+. My two vague "targets" were to finish in about 2h15, and maybe about 10 minutes behind Louise, 'coz she's pretty handy on a bike. Both were slightly ambitious (Louise finished in an excellent 2h07, 12 mins ahead), but I was happy enough!
I didn't want to be a road block at the start on my battleship, so started at the back, but as a result got well boxed in on the twisty turny cycle path and was pretty much coasting for the first 3km. When I got going I breezed past several folk, caught up Dave just before Gleneagles, then was basically cycling on my own for the entire rest of the route. Happy enough with the long drag up Langside, but had to push down the hill into Comrie (wind resistance and insufficient gearing!) so hit a bit of a low patch going east from there, before the steep climbs back up to Muthill. Bunged the Go into ultra-low gear and ground up the hills, so recovered slightly, but was well tired by the finish.
Fantastic effort by Gary to finish 2nd on a stupendous 3h46 on the 70 mile Sportive. They're definitely eating some funky stuff in that Longhurst house :-).
Great event - lovely route, fab grub afterwards, nice and low key. Will definitely aim to do again next year!
TRIMP 283.7.
I didn't want to be a road block at the start on my battleship, so started at the back, but as a result got well boxed in on the twisty turny cycle path and was pretty much coasting for the first 3km. When I got going I breezed past several folk, caught up Dave just before Gleneagles, then was basically cycling on my own for the entire rest of the route. Happy enough with the long drag up Langside, but had to push down the hill into Comrie (wind resistance and insufficient gearing!) so hit a bit of a low patch going east from there, before the steep climbs back up to Muthill. Bunged the Go into ultra-low gear and ground up the hills, so recovered slightly, but was well tired by the finish.
Fantastic effort by Gary to finish 2nd on a stupendous 3h46 on the 70 mile Sportive. They're definitely eating some funky stuff in that Longhurst house :-).
Great event - lovely route, fab grub afterwards, nice and low key. Will definitely aim to do again next year!
TRIMP 283.7.