Today was an endurance day, so I decided to ride up Afton Mountain. As my title suggests, it was the toughest 40 miles I’ve done in quite some time. Though the numbers don’t suggest an epic ride (133.3 TSS, 170 NP), my body certainly felt like it. At around the two hour mark, I was pretty well fried. After 2 hours, NP was 154, before that 177. Luckily, I won’t be doing any races that are over 2 hours, but the significant drop off certainly suggests a need to work on my endurance.
For those of you interested, I’ve put a link to the ride route below. For a guy just moved from the flatlands of Chicago, 3300 ft of climbing is a lot.
