I've had my well deserved rest after the race on last Sunday so it was time to get moving again and get some serious training done. I finished work at 4pm today, just in time to still get out on the bike while the weather is good. Luckily this afternoon was great: nice and warm with lots of sunshine.
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| Kilmashogue Climb |
I think one of the best place to do interval training is the Kilmashogue Lane. I allways pick this climb if I want to do long enough training with steep gradient. So I got to my starting point which is the gate of the St. Columba's College. The finishing point of the climb is the end of the road up on the mountain. I have decided to ride the tarmac climb all the way up to the top and back 4 times in a row as my interval training for the day. Beside the training my other goal was to get a new personal best time on the climb to be able to set my goals for the future. This allways gives me motivation, something to work for.
So off I went to get done what was planned. Up and back, up and back... four times. It was great! I got pretty tired but I know this session was very useful for the upcoming XC races.
Details of the climb:
lenght: 2.43 km
elevation gain: 230 m
max gradient: 24%
avarage gradient: 10.56%
personal best: 12 minutes 19 seconds (on the XC bike)
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| Graph of the full training |
The total training took 1 hour and 47 minutes and I got 35km done with the total elevation of 1007m. It was short but intense, I have burned 1200kcal during the training.
After the training I was very happy to see that I did get a new best time. From now on this is the time I would like to beat!
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