Selection and fitting of bikes. Fabian !!. Decided to go in medium group for the first ride. Torn between not having ridden for past 2 weeks and wanting to save my legs for tomorrow .
Weather quite coolish
Had a 50km ride. 25km down and 25 km up but really only 9 km of climbing. I Led the group back followed by Klaus with he back is pink booties and young Jack both riding well. Felt great to back on the bike finally. Felt pretty strong.
You do 50 kms in this place and it’s equivalent to about double the kms normal riding. Arabba is at about 1600 meters and you’ve pretty much gotta do climbing as soon as you leave town
No Garmin today – didnt get time to mount it on the new bike
Lunch in fav restaurant – Penne arraba spicy flavour and nice
Talk on Nutrition from Katherine and Troels – excellent – perhaps I should have had more potassium to prevent cramping ! ohh well too late now
Race briefing in the bar – wow they are pretty organised – all the gear distributed including race pack numbers and lots of goodies in the Skoda bag. Troels took us through each of the climbs, each time holding his chin, pausing and starting with “This one could ruin your day”. Decided to take his advice and keep HR below 150 all day
