Stage 6, our penultimate stage, takes us to the steady slopes of Coll de Rates for a focused, rhythm-driven climb designed to help us finish the Tour strong. Guided by Wahoo Ambassador Michael Cotty of The Col Collective, we build effort step by step — learning to pace, breathe, and stay composed as the intensity rises. It’s about staying in control when it gets tough and leaning into the strength of the Wahooligan community as we climb together with purpose in support of the Davis Phinney Foundation.
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Stage 6 in the bag this morning. Still at 100%, legs felt surprisingly good today. Bring on the final stage tomorrow.
For anyone interested I made a playlist for this as listening to the the OL video wasn’t going to provide sufficient motivation for day 6. A few Sufferfest classics in there, I’m sure some of the music will be divisive but a mix of genres in there too. (If you play it in order then it works quite well for interval timings etc)
Completed “There Is No There Is No Try Anymore.” (I had to rely on imagining Marc Madiot leaning out of the window of the team car during the final interval.). There were a couple of nice moments:
Sir Standsalot passing other cyclists with ease… during his warmup
A descent without vans or other vehicular traffic.
Agree you need some good tunes for this stage, as it’s rougher than I’d anticipated, it’s attritional with the 2nd block feeling a lot tougher, the first set feeling steady enough to begin, but the fatigue rising as the interval duration increased. The recovery is generous at least which provided some respite, but the 2nd set was a real struggle, the 4 and 3mt efforts in particular, hanging on there but got it ticked off at 100%. Just the pair of familiar sessions tomorrow for Nuclear ToS which will be fun! I use double audio for these OL rides, a set of earbuds for a good suffer playlist, and over-ear heads for the workout audio as Mike Cotty does provides good motivational chat, every little helps!
I really miss There Is No Try - still love the workout and I love many of the OL rides, but it’s not the same.
To help take my mind off what was missing, decided to do stages 6 & 7 back to back to back.
Coll De Rates / 9 Hammers / G.O.A.T. - do not recommend this!
I now find myself with a dilemma - I’ve ridden all the stages and there’s still 2 days left. ISLTA tomorrow and KS on Saturday feels a little amateurish compared to the next level shenanigans going around. I think I’m ok with that…
I’ve got Nine Hammers and G.O.A.T ahead of me tonight to finish the ToS before leaving town for the weekend. I thought that was bad enough, never mind adding Coll de Rates. Good grief!
Col de Rates! I almost psyched myself out last night imagining how hard this stage was going to be. I was feeling the fatigue after team scream and wasn’t sure how well I would recover today. So I took that anticipation as impetus to do a better warmup and eat more beforehand. Those steps paid off. While it was hard at times, I never felt like I had to stop or couldn’t see the finish line.
these on location rides are growing on me. I enjoy when Mike Cotty is coaching us through the interval.
It used to be a SUF workout called ‘There is No Try,’ but unfortunately was one of the videos re-made as OLs. I agree it’s a cracking workout and still enjoy it as an OL, but it’s not quite the same and lacks the certain SUF je ne sais quoi.
Throw in a couple of NM sprints in the intervals and it is just what all the nuts in Sufferlandria need, a wrench that fit them perfectly. The forum pic that you referenced was Sir Evan missing 14 Vise Grips in the ride he is ‘implementing’ (think it is in Shenanigans thread).
