Was browsing through the videos looking at which ones I hadn’t suffered on for the longest. For a while it was Downward Spiral. Feb 2020.
Then I clicked on the Omnium. Feb 2019!!
Now why was that. Obvs the Kilo!
So it hit my playlist today.
After a great lead in to the tour? A great tour and then a good relax I wondered how I would get on.
Well the kilo did what the kilo does. The lactic was flooding my legs at the end but I just hung on in there.
Turns out I set my new max HR (ever!) and a new highest VO2.
And the footage of the Omnium is incredible. I won’t leave it 2 years to do again! If you’ve not done it recently I highly recommend it.
Just did the omnium for the first time this morning… 5 minute efforts are my strength, but that kilo being a 1 minute effort I guess is different enough to do me in…I did okay in the last race, but there was no way I was sprinting at the end.
Somehow I was within 2 watts of my previous 1 minute best from full frontal in the kilo… good consistency I guess?
Great suffering! Looking forward to killing it next time.
Another first for me. Utterly destroyed, but HOLY HELL HOW ABOUT THE OMNIUM?!? And yeah, flying 200 @ #4 and the kilometer @ #5 were just…something.
Luckily I’m “a sprinter” and a total velodrome nerd, so suffered through it, cracked like an egg, but smiled the whole way (sorry GvA). A new favorite - as sick as that sounds. Legitimately surprised my 1min and 4min power records didn’t fall today.
