Felt a bit tired and not well rested when I got out of bed at 8am this morning to watch the Womens Worlds' Elite Time Trial event in Geelong, Australia. Amazing how Jeannie Longo could hold on to the fifth position overall. She is 52 years old and when she had the best time she was flanked by 2 girls who - counted together - didn't have her age. What a career this woman has. Her first participation at the Worlds' was way back in 1982 ! and she has become very famous after that. Check out her website for her amazing string of results .
Today English girl Emma Pooley was the quickest of the lot. Check out the latest on http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uci-road-world-championships-cm/elite-women/results . Tomorrow morning the Elite Men are going for it. Curious who will beat Cancellara for the title.
Me, I wasn't going to ride first but when the clouded skies seemed to break open a bit around 11am I decided to go out anyway. Did another easy ride . Had a spot of trouble with my Polar heartrate readout. Looks like I am in need of a new breastband. The signal is bad and only in the second part of my 2-hour ride did I get the exact heartrate on my Polar wrist watch. Very frustrating to see your heartrate leap to 170 for 5 minutes, then drop to 52 for another couple of minutes, and so on. Must pass at Filip Sport anyway soon so I will try to make do with this breastband for now.
The ride was uneventful, and I focussed again on keeping the heartrate low - yeah, right - and pushing low gears.Temperature was a mild 15 degrees C and there was no wind to speak of.

Ride Stats : 43K and 295/345 heightmeters (Polar/Garmin) in 2h00mins

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