Sunday 9/27 rides

[OakLeaf]

What is TDD?

Terrain Degree of Difficulty, on a 1-10 scale.

Although to be completely honest, I think whoever does the rating for COP could use a little fine-tuning.

Last weekend's single-century ride was rated a 10 as well, and I thought this Saturday was much harder. Some of it could've been the weather though (both the chilled muscles and having to take it slow on wet descents) - and maybe they take the back-to-back days into account also, as the big stage races take into account fatigue when they categorize climbs.

And IMVHO, I think if it's a 1-10 scale, then 10 should be reserved for "the most difficult ride you can imagine," and I can definitely imagine more difficult.



ETA: In my defense , this was my first time doing CFC, so it was super important to me to finish. I didn't try to stay with anyone, but instead made sure there'd be no question I'd saved enough - and definitely I had enough to pick up the pace a bit in the last five or six miles, once it was pretty clear that I would finish. As I said to someone at the last food stop, all summer it's been "I've got to ride harder, I'm training for CFC!," but this weekend all I had to do was finish.

For comparison, in the Florida flats, three of us working together would typically average right around 20 when you exclude the stop-sign laden warm-up and cool-down sections, and I know I'm way stronger now than I was when I left there in the spring.