(or 866m ascent, according to bikeroutetoaster)
Another Peebles-based ride with Helen, on lovely quiet roads. Unfortunately today was horrendously windy (arround 22mph winds), so neither speed nor distance were anything to write home about. Concentrated today on maintaining a high cadence - if it works for the TdF riders, it should work for me.
Much more relaxed than my last training ride - average HR was 139bpm (cf 163 last time), with 25% in zone 2 and 48% in zone 3. That should be a level of effort I could sustain on a longer ride.
I've just compared this with my ride to Braemar last year. That had an average HR of 138; 36% in zone 2, and 50.5 in zone 3. Remarkably close. But last year, my average speed was 14.7 on a route that was only 8% less hilly. I think I've got my work cut out over the next couple of months!
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