My Motto for the winter and next season

"If You really want to do something, you'll find a Way. If You don't, you will find an Excuse."
- Jim Rohn -

Ottershaw Roadrace Series, III, Elite/1/2/3, 95km

The third part of this classic autumn series brought us again to the double circuit around Staple hill near Longcross. Again, we had highly motivated race action, also imposed by the Pedal Heaven "Angels", with massive surges of speed and sapping enormous amounts of power. Average speed was again a "mediocre" 41km/h due to phases of rest-bite in-between (thanks for that). Reviewing my data I realized I spent more than 50% of the race above threshold, in the following had to revise my HR max upwards by 10 beats (apparently I held that for a duration of 6mins! at some instant), my cardiologist is probably going to say the race almost killed me. But to take the drama out, I finished in a starkly reduced bunch 17th on the day and 12th place overall in general classification. I really enjoyed these 3 weekends, only that this one overlapped with my wintertraining which had started a week ago, so I got on the bike with aching muscles from Thursday's core workout.

 Strava File

Here we are, at the end of the 2015 Racing Season, lets see how we get over the winter and back in Full swing in April next year.