Day 234

Group ride/skills session.  The skills part involved riding slowly while intentionally rubbing the wheels of the rider in front.  It's sort of surprising, but I couldn't even feel it when my wheel was being hit, but when I was doing the rubbing I was dragged of balance a bit.  Kind of fun in the end.  Then after some more sitting around we all rode in pace lines around the UBC crit course for a bit, then played a little game where one person goes off the front and a group of 3 or 4 has to catch him.  That led to some hard efforts, but they were pretty short.  Actually, those were my hardest efforts so far this year, and my lack of conditioning in the area was immediately apparent.  In the end, the whole ride last about 2 hours, but with around 30-40min of rest.  39.75km in 2:06:35, for an avg speed of 22.8km/h, and avg power of 141 (218W normalized).  That large gap in normalized power goes to show how hard those short efforts were.  It means the effort was equivalent to riding for that duration at 218W.