Week 16

Wednesday: Initially wanted to do a long steady ride but some of the guys needed to get home early, so the plan was changed to a slightly shorter ride with hill intervals. Did Home - Batu 14 - Bukit Hantu - Tekala - Perez - Batu 18 - Bukit Ampang - Home. Bukit Hantu NP 251W, Perez NP 282W, Bukit Ampang NP 257W. Did a PB up Perez from the junction tailing Leonard. Only lost him at the last 300 metres at the steepest bit. But it was a time PB by far. Wanted to hammer it on DUKE heading back home but had to play bus driver as Faisaal was cramping and struggling. Still managed a decent 285 TSS points.

Saturday: Rode with the BJCC boys. Home - AI - GCE - Latar - Ijok - Fruit Valley - Batu Arang - Jalan Kuala Selangor - GCE - Home. No intervals marked on the computer just steady hard all the way with rotating paceline on Latar and hammering it on the Fruit Valley climbs. NP for whole ride was 224W for a TSS of 290 points.

Sunday: A long aerobic ride to Sungai Besar. Was conned by Razali who said it was 180 km from AI, which would have given me 210 km. But when we clocked 135 km at the u-turn point, I knew we were in for a longer ride. Turns out that it was 255 km. The only system that was put to work was the "ass-hardiness" as I clocked 8 hours of saddle time. The objective of the ride was slightly compromised as I had to drop back to tow 2 guys to Kuala Selangor. Was bonking a little from Kuala Selangor to Ijok as I didn't eat at Kuala Selangor. But managed to get in some nutrition at the Petronas and finished the ride strong for 375 TSS points.

Only 3 days of riding this week. Wanted to do a 3 day block across the FT Day public holidays, but mentally and physically I was pretty drained. Legs didn't quite want to work on the Tuesday and Thursday, but perhaps it was for a good thing. As it was, total TSS across the 3 days was already 950. A sizeable load for any given week. Add that to the 1000+ TSS from the previous week, no wonder I was a left a little mentally and physically fatigued.