welcome back to the videos welcome to calpe i'm here with team ribble who are doing 200k today
i don't know if i'm going to be doing 200k though i'm going to sit here on the back for as long as
possible easy gear i'll be absolutely fine easy what are you talking about we just tap another
climb zone two maybe zone one worst case you grab onto the team car might just hold on to your uh i
just do this yeah that's bad it's the triathlon hook but you know it's got more than one used
so this is a big old day uh plan for me is just to
sit on the back surf the wheels try not to over do it on the climbs and see
how much i can get through don't know if i'm going to do the whole 200k because that is
an extremely long way and i'm still pretty tired from my trip just getting all the excuses in now
i'll hold on for as long as i can though because what a great place to ride and heading back to the
uk soon so i want to make the most of these roads and the nice weather because at home it is raining
so
so how does a pro team ride a session like this they're doing 200k and they're aiming to do
it in about six and a half hours or less that's quite fast the rotating riders every sort of five
minutes or so and riding zone two on the front on the flat which is my zone three and when we
hit the climbs they're running at sweet spot which is well above my threshold the group is seriously
tight there's no slowing down for much at all they stick together and the gaps in between wheels are
much smaller than they would be on your standard group ride because everyone trusts each other
everyone's riding at very high level everyone is eating and drinking at very regular intervals
probably most important for a session like this which is so long because if you uh don't feel well
at the start you know as soon as 45 minutes hits uh then you will be suffering later in the day so
it's important to uh get that nutrition in early and then make sure you feel as good as you can
later in the day how many grams of carbs are we going for oh about a hundred an hour be fair
first out i've knocked her back a bit because i absolutely wanted a massive bowl of breakfast so
i'm feeling a little bit bloated but we moved still got the uh you know energy and the bottles
and stuff so uh yeah probably be 100 by the time i get the middle of the ride what about
you ollie so i'm trying to ride it a bit more like a race day strategy so a longer sort of race aim
for sort of 120 that sort of region so i've got the ot supercard in the bottles that's about 90.
and then i've got an ote supercar gel try and pop one of them every hour so
top up nicely 120 ish man yeah hopefully by the end of the ride not be in a box
if it gets really hot are you still going to stick to the carb drink or you're going to
start drinking water uh i'll probably start to drink some few bits of water
like so much of the supercar stuff it is quite thick
so if you're not careful when it does start to get a bit warmer
you can start to feel it on your stomach a bit more it gets a bit heavy so yeah you don't want
to be thrown up four hours into a six hour day i feel a bit heavy so i'm going to go to the back
36k done and we're hitting the first proper climb of the day don't turn this camera off guys
are you gonna push me however all day have you got a tortilla in your pocket
hang out i've seen cam's getting in the car cam's cracked ready
i'm a northerner
so quick stop refuel got a couple of gels in refill the water still here it's out of the back
of the group for now 83k is done how are your legs not too bad to be fair i'm on the upwards
trajectory the first couple hours i still had a belly full of oats but uh they seem to have
distributed themselves and now i've got carbs flowing through my veins you're right colin
yeah yeah chilling at the back yeah enjoying the sun making the most of it gotta go back to the uk
on monday the seventh so yeah just cruising we should just stay here why not look at that
you can't tell anyone about the super shock the uci they know where i live you can't post that
now into operation hold on for dear life doing a little climb up two dons
not the usual way hopefully make it to the top of this one still in touch with the group
we're not even halfway i'm gonna go down to the coast have a beer and relax and wait wait
for you yeah and you have beer after showing okay they're just pissing in the background of the shop
high-tech race food it's morale bag of morel cans of coke can come out later as well you never know
somehow i've been coerced into doing even more with the team
i've tried to leave mate i've tried to leave twice now we're not laying it you're not
allowed once you sign up you can't go home i didn't sign anything you're inside you know
so dispatched by the team but 140k done after that descent uh just hit colossa and it should be a
nice easy ride home absolute pleasure joining them on that ride and they couldn't have been
more welcoming so thank you ribble for having me uh managed to last probably longer than i
was expecting so happy days i hope you can hear me a bit of a headwind going on 206k 72ks now
average of 30.4 it was a bit spicy on the way back a bit of a chain gang happened got back
on the main road into kelp and just whanged it we found alex has the biggest normalized 272 max 1257
328 tss 5100 kilojoules so what i'm hearing is a big dinner