22 Min. Tantalus...

The Tantalus TT comes up in about a month, on April 6th...and...I hope to finally get into the low 22's...somehow!!!

I've been doing Tantalus for so many years and I've been totally stuck in the 23's or so. So I figured, instead of only trying to improve my fitness, why not try something different? So, what I came up with was a different pedaling technique.

While riding last week, I did some thinking of how I've been pedaling my bike. Instead of pedaling from the "back seat" like I used to, I decided to try pedaling "off the front" to see how that would work.

After about 3 rides, from what I can tell...it "might" be working. Although, without a Powertap...I'm only going by time and feel. Seems like this style saves the legs and works the lungs instead, and when I mean saves the legs...it's not like before when it felt like my legs were going to BLOW UP...well...maybe...I may not be going hard enough at this point yet too...

I mean, the other style was OK, but I've been really really really stuck and stagnant in ALL my climbing races, whether at Tantalus and even at Haleakala (with my 3hr 50min rides for 2 years in a row). THIS TIME, this time, it's going to be DIFFERENT...

Still climbing pretty slow, but, maybe I'll time Tantalus this weekend...