My First KOM Try – BionicOldGuy

I lately signed up for Strava premium which helps you to evaluate efforts with others in your similar age group. Strava tracks “Kings of Mountain” (KOMs) and “Queens of Mountain” (QOMs) for varied routes. A handy native problem for me is climbing Llagas highway, which is barely quarter-hour away by bike. The climb presently takes me slightly below six minutes which is an effective size problem.

This locations me 87th out of 142 in my age group who’ve tried this phase. There are a whole lot of quick outdated of us in Morgan Hill!

I’m not a very good climber so this provides me one thing to concentrate on enhancing. Coaching to get quicker at that may require the type of intervals I’m already doing, however I’ve to concentrate on doing them uphill as a substitute of on the flat. This will probably be a enjoyable problem for me over the following few weeks.

I did this effort very first thing yesterday morning. I then went residence and switched bikes from my unassisted highway bike to my electric-assist bike, which I took on my Tuesday group outing, an extended journey at a neater tempo. However to start out off with my climbing coaching I turned help off on all vital uphills and rode them extra briskly.