Our hill climb coincided with the boards.ie hill climb, being held on the same course, albeit from a different starting point. It was great to see so many folks out on the bike; participation levels in the sport really seem to be on the increase.
As a reference point for times, when the race was over we carried out some tests, at race wattage, to enable comparisons between the times posted. It took thirty three seconds to get from the UCD starting point to the boards.ie starting line.
A full list of UCD times will be available on www.ucdcycling.com tomorrow.
For now, I can tell you that I had the fastest time of UCD starters, posting 7.24 for the ascent to the summit shop.
My wattage for the duration of the race was a leg sapping 441 watts. The effort was made all the more painful due to the lack of a structured warm-up. The shorter a race, the longer and more intense the warm-up really needs to be.
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