Mike
Maximum Pace
- Sep 24, 2007
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- 9
This is just a thread to stir up Deej and to throw down the gauntlet to anyone who dares
Today I headed out with my head down, disappointed to be riding alone after such a promising route for HT5. For those of you that haven't heard Travis was in an accident last night and the ride was canceled. It was terrible news and I hope you're OK mate!
As soon as I hit the open road I felt the fatigue in my legs from a pretty hard week of training, and thought to myself that today's ride would be brief. The weather was so nice though that I just kept on going and ended up with 140km on the clock. I took R76 over Sagamiko and headed up to Wada Toge for my very first ascent of the sacred hill i.e. Deej's home turf. To be honest as I wasn't feeling great I thought I'd just spin my my way up and for the first 400m was doing exactly that. I knew that Deej was going to be passing through here at some point today, as it's his stomping ground after all and he has to do this kind of like a Lion protecting it's territory, so I was looking behind expecting to see him at any moment and I saw another rider fast approaching. Well that was it, it was on . I opened up the taps and the new Hed wheels made that sweet sound as I accelerated and he was soon a out of sight falling far behind.
The sign below had read it was 5km to the top so I was calculating everything on this. Little did I know that it's actually 5.9 km to the top and by the time I hit the 5km mark I was in massive trouble and to make matters worse it was getting steeper. Let's just say I was glad to finally reach the top and have a seat at the infamous Wada BaBa restaurant, or at least for a few minutes anyway before she told me to buy something or bugger off.
So Deej here is my time
23' 24 (from the West side)
I started timing from the bottom where Simon pointed it out a few weeks ago, so there can be no disputes there! I'd like to add I was seriously fatigued and it's the first time to do this climb so I'm sure I can only improve on this. Am I the Wada Toge Champ or did you go even faster today?
Today I headed out with my head down, disappointed to be riding alone after such a promising route for HT5. For those of you that haven't heard Travis was in an accident last night and the ride was canceled. It was terrible news and I hope you're OK mate!
As soon as I hit the open road I felt the fatigue in my legs from a pretty hard week of training, and thought to myself that today's ride would be brief. The weather was so nice though that I just kept on going and ended up with 140km on the clock. I took R76 over Sagamiko and headed up to Wada Toge for my very first ascent of the sacred hill i.e. Deej's home turf. To be honest as I wasn't feeling great I thought I'd just spin my my way up and for the first 400m was doing exactly that. I knew that Deej was going to be passing through here at some point today, as it's his stomping ground after all and he has to do this kind of like a Lion protecting it's territory, so I was looking behind expecting to see him at any moment and I saw another rider fast approaching. Well that was it, it was on . I opened up the taps and the new Hed wheels made that sweet sound as I accelerated and he was soon a out of sight falling far behind.
The sign below had read it was 5km to the top so I was calculating everything on this. Little did I know that it's actually 5.9 km to the top and by the time I hit the 5km mark I was in massive trouble and to make matters worse it was getting steeper. Let's just say I was glad to finally reach the top and have a seat at the infamous Wada BaBa restaurant, or at least for a few minutes anyway before she told me to buy something or bugger off.
So Deej here is my time
23' 24 (from the West side)
I started timing from the bottom where Simon pointed it out a few weeks ago, so there can be no disputes there! I'd like to add I was seriously fatigued and it's the first time to do this climb so I'm sure I can only improve on this. Am I the Wada Toge Champ or did you go even faster today?