Tom (tomlerieger) says:

I did “The Lecht” as 40′ warming up ride and was ready at the start. Goal of today was a top 20 and a mention. Found myself at around 25th place after the first Kms just a little bit behind Mucker Niels Brynum. Gave everything to got into his draft but he pushed 6W on the climbs so it was hard to close the gaps, I tried to stay at max 5W and not to overpacing. I felt I had good legs so we manages to bridge up to the group of 10-16 place with swiss Pfeffer and many others. After 3/4 I was alone with anatso when he attacked on the last steep climb with more than 6W. I hat to let him go but my tactics was to keep my 4.8W even in the flat section to came back in his draft. I guessed he is a lightwight rider who climbs good but had problems downhills. It worked out like planned: I came in his draft with a good speed and passed him just before the crest an was 15m before him in the descent. So he had no draft from me and was not able to close the gap to the finish anymore. My best race ever: 314W, IF 1.12, 4.31W/kg. Need a rest and recovery now. Pedal on, cheers Tom

Nagy Róbert says:

Hello Guys! 🙂 Nowdays I absolutely haven’t been plannig a race with the muckers, because I decided to just make nice workouts eg the Lidl-Trek workout sounded quite nice to me. It means, each week 3 wo-s, and besides that a muckers race is not something that fits. But yestarday I saw the guys are all suffering with flu, as myself, so I decided to join.
The plan was a 2-2,5w/kg, buth rather towards 2. I was both tired and ill so….
What happened acually is, 1min before the start rouvy started to write errors, net loss, and nice things like that. But a few seconds afer start I managed to join the race, I saw the las guys back on the screen 🙂
Then I was pushing a 500-300 watts avg int the first minute, to get back into the band, and I felt that I’m in a quite good shape in spite of the odds… Previously I decided to go with Neil and Torben because I knew they are also “invalides” like me, but I didn’t know where they are, far ahead, of back. So I just tied to push a convenient pace with anyone around me. These guys were 1ElvisPresley1 for a little time, Mikey3R, and Phil_SCRT, they were really good companion, thanks again for the ride! But as my strava shows to keep up with them I had to put out a 166(!!!)BPM average. This is extreme for me. On one hand it means I’m not in very bad shape, but if I put there also the watts (210..), then the fact is that, that yes I am in a veeery bad shape still 😀 😀
But really, who cares, I’m not planning to be in any race-teams, just enjoy the rides in the summer 🙂 When there is no flu, no viruses, no covid, maybe even the russians will not be bombing us way uphills… (downhills I’m fast enough)
But summer is far ahead, anything else can still be there. 😛