Today Ryan Shan and I set out for some Morgan-Monroe State Forest training. The MMSF RR is a couple weeks away and it’s in my best interest to ride this ride several times between now and then. We rode out to the loop, which starts atop Bean Blossom hill (a big mother), then busted the whole loop, HARD. Here’s for reference: Pat O’donell holds the course record @ 34min, 20 sec. Ryan and I rode the loop in 34.03. True, there were two of us, but we weren’t trading pulls, so whatever. That’s just shy of 25mph on this course. A couple more hot laps like this and I really hope to shine at the MMSF RR. We rode in eas(ier) and got in just under 50 miles for the morning.
Monday was the standard 1 hour easy roller spin, and tomorrow will be the Bottom Rd loop @ tempo. Good weather = good times.
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I'm assuming that when you say that you were not trading pulls that you were riding side-by-side. Or Shanny was pulling and you were drafting. Either way very impressive beating Pat considering Pat is a Cat 1, ex-pro!!!
Also most people go a little easier on a training ride as compared to a race.
I just looked over the flyer and it looks like you get to climb BB for a total of 3 times (ouch). It looks like one other big climb on the course, what the name of this hill or road?
Also, is Bean Blossom the hardest hill down there or would you consider Bear Wallow or some hill harder? I'd say Tabor is out as one of the hardest as it really too short.
Jumpy
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