376W average for ~100 seconds kept me in touch with the front group of 14. I stayed in the wheels up through the first part of the climb and across the flat section in the middle, then steeled myself for the real effort. (The actual start line comes well before the bridge, but the road is mostly flat from the start line to the bridge.) We had 42 Bs in the race, and everything stayed tame until we hit the bridge that signals the real start of the KOM. ![]() Lap 1Īfter an easy downhill lead-in to the Country Sprint banner, our first lap began. ![]() I wasn’t sure if I could hang with the front across three laps, but I figured it would be a great workout regardless. This is where the big efforts come, and when the route follows the road all the way to the KOM banner, I usually get dropped! But the Three Village Loop, mercifully, turns right earlier, keeping the climb short. Then the road flattens for a bit before you turn left toward the Castle and begin to hammer for the final 1 kilometer. The first part – across the bridge and twisting up through the houses – is very draftable, rather short, and generally not very challenging. The climb is around 3.5 minutes from start to finish for a B rider like myself. I haven’t raced Three Village Loop much, but I know the course well enough to know that there’s just one stop where I would have to push at or near my max: the KOM up to the Castle.Īpart from that climb, the route is basically flat or slightly downhill, ending on a high-speed flat sprint. I put in a few hard, shorter efforts to get the heart rate up and break the ice, then I headed for the start pens on my Tron bike. And of course, I had chewed two pieces of caffeine gum (200mg of go-go juice!) and applied PR lotion to the legs… my typical race prep. I’d eaten a banana for a quick breakfast, to get some fructose in the veins. The race began at 7:30am, so I was on the bike by 6:45 to spin up the legs with Coco.
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