OK...I'll defer to those that know....but obviously that isn't a normal club ride when the fastest guys inthe state show up for it.

But, last night in my group I set new personal records - for some reason my club is now into climbing....out of a 1 hour 50 minute ride I spent 1 hour 19 minutes above 80% of my HRmax (theoretical max is 181, I hit 179 and was in the high 170's for quite a while) and hit 42 mph on the backside of the steepest hill. Somehow the two minutes at 40+ mph didn't balance out the 20 minutes of climbing at 8 mph to me.