wow! I can’t imagine ever doing LS at 100%. I know I never have. Never mind AFTER doing The Wretched!!! Done LS a bunch of times at 50% as a recovery ride in the before times when there were no INSP films.
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Did Downward Spiral at 100%. The first few ‘longer’ sprints were tough but then I settled in.
Next up, yet another double: There is No Try + Revolver.
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I’ve done it many times at 100%. Just not as part of a double ride and not on legs this tired.
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I’ve never done it at 100% before either. Feels like a dead cat bounce… just waiting now for the inevitable crash.
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Awesome combo - enjoy 
Stage 8 - There is No Try + Revolver: done and done. I have managed to complete the last two stages at 100%. Please don’t ask me how. The rides are just blurring together now, I turned the volume off, put my head down and just pedaled. I’m sure I missed some of the cadence targets but I kept the power up.
Local Hero and the 2013 ToS is a wrap. Sounds simple enough, but then I am delusional. 
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Local Hero. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Hehe. Crushing it Sir!
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Then straight onto the 2014 tour 
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…with a FF warmup 
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It’s all over. I’d never actually done Local Hero before - really enjoyed the retro sprints at the end. Now it’s time for a quiet week of recovery, before doing the week with UCI.
Kudos to Sir @Critmark for suggesting this mad caper - it’s been a blast. Just what I needed. Let me know when you’re doing 2014: I may just join you again.
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@jasonmayo here is the past rides list. Let me know if you also need 2022.
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You guys are crazy. LOVE IT!
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Hey, I resemble that remark! 
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What do you mean “may just join you again”? Kind Sir, what kind of response is that from a Knight?
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and I resemble that one
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Right?! As it’s been said and so it was written, so it shall be done!
Edit: not by me mind you.
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Now that that has been concluded (good job BTW @nicktick) just a few thoughts.
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I managed almost all at 100%. The only 2 that I had to dial back were the second ride sustained efforts of Extra Shot and Team Scream. I’ll take it.
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My legs got really fatigued towards the end. More so than this years ToS, or at least as I remember.
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The weather here has been cold so I am doing the workouts in temps as low as 39 degrees F. It takes me a much longer time to get the legs warmed up. So I struggle with the idea of warming up before the scheduled workout and not wanting that extra time on the bike on tired legs.
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Oh Goody, just 8 more tours to go!
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Saving this for colder weather next year 
Going to use these as my prep for the cycling event Around the Bay (300km route option).
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Silly question though, for the 2019 season why is there a yoga session there? non of the other seasons have strength/yoga/etc…
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Yoga challenges stopped around then. Up until 2019 there were occasional yoga challenges as well as occasional cycling ones.