Did Giro Della Donna on the weekend, damn near killed me. I have done a couple of longer riders before, and a couple with more elevation, but for some reason this was just the most mind rending ride I have ever done, I have not pushed myself so far through the barriers of cramps and just wanting to stop like that since I was 16 at recruit school, absolute torture. Riding through cramps for the final 7km up Mount Donna Buang when the legs already had over 100km and 2000 metres on them was so damn hard, everything in me was saying stop but i managed to keep the legs turning in granny gear all the way to the top, at around 7km/h, thus that last climb took me almost an hour. I rode cautiously from the start, keeping heart rate down and preserving legs etc. but the legs just had nothing for that final hour, nothing, just cramps and no power, heart rate still low etc and breathing fine but legs were just completely trashed. I finished and laid on the ground with cramps everywhere, every time I changed position slightly I cramped somewhere else. Not enough water stops on the course etc. certainly did not help. This day was torture, pure and simple.
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