Originally Posted by
Dynamic
wrong wrong wrong
100 flat
100 rolling hills
100 with hardcore hills
quite different. but least you can say you did a century even if it was just flat.
I'd be willing to bet that I produce more watts and more w/kg than most "100 with hardcore hills" riders do on a normal training ride in central, pan flat, IL.
As they say, the racers make the race hard, not the course.* Echeloning in the spring Classics, for example. Pan flat, but windy. Half the field ends up in their team cars. The same is true of any training ride, over any distance.
*To think otherwise simply means you don't know what you're talking about.