Tag: Mallorca
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Mallorca wind chaos made me doubt my 11-hour goal
Faster Than Expected: March Chaos, Mallorca Wind Wars, and Why I’m Already Questioning My 11-Hour Goal Somehow it’s a new month already. April arrived faster than my legs recover after a long climb, and it brought with it temperatures that nobody asked for. Either March is genuinely colder than usual this year or my memory…
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Pedaling through pain: My shocking survival of Mallorca’s brutal 312
…nothing went wrong but everything happened. April was meant to be my final training crescendo, but Mother Nature had other plans, hurling snow blizzards at me in Helsinki while my work travel schedule played calendar Tetris with my riding days. My training suffered more than my quads on a 20% gradient, and those crucial long…