Next year starts today

I am trying to hang onto some fitness from a very long season which started in January with The Tour of the Bahamas and ended in Paris on October 16th with the longest crit of the year (120k) Today I did a long ride, all endurance level effort except for one hill.

For those of you who did the Grand Fondo NY you would have see our team out crushing the KOM's. I was unable to ride it. Today i wanted to see how i would have stacked up against Clayton Barrows and the rest of the guys on Little Tor. It is about a 5 min climb. Check out the results below.

I hit this hill as hard as i could. I did it in 5:28 throwing about 380 watts for the effort. even Fat Joe took substantial time out of me. The strava site is super cool for looking at stuff like this. I do not think I will ever be as fast as Clayton and Mike but I think i could drop fat Joe with some hard work.

    1   289 Clayton Barrows        29 M    4:20.49      2   284 Michael Margarite      32 M    4:24.70      3    21 Maurizio Coccia        36 M    4:25.63      4   241 Brendan Sullivan       48 M    4:40.19      5   978 James Mattis           38 M    4:40.82      6   286 Daniel Zmolik          35 M    4:44.23      7   282 Christopher Johnson    28 M    4:44.60      8   224 Richard Feldman        42 M    4:45.43      9   752 Evanio Zimmermann      47 M    4:47.60     10   285 Joe Whitman            29 M    4:48.43