I tried something a bit different on the bike from work on Thursday this week. Instead of looking at the time past certain waypoints I focused instead on the average speed I was producing and tried to maintain it as high as I could. I've got my record time of 46:53 to work with an average of 20.7mph. The idea was to try and maintain a higher average than this throughout and if I couldn't sustain it see where the areas I was losing the most speed. This will come over many runs. For this first one I just wanted to push hard and see where I got to. I was slow getting out of Huntingdon and into the Stukleys but started to push hard as I found clear road and went from a slow 13mph to a whopping 19.9mph in about 2 miles. By the time I'd reached the halfway point I was over 21mph using the big downhills to up the speed. I then went into burnout to maintain that advantage. I was giving it everything to keep the speedo over 21. It really motivated me to have a target like that and I was happy to be flying along. It did hurt which showed the difference in the time based version where I'm not being as proactive.
The result was a new fastest time of 46:16.
The way forward appears to be average.
Bloody respectable averages there!
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