^ Oh man! I thought Cadel winning the TdF may have lifted the threshold.
…but my bike’s not pink.
Thread bump…my youngest bro wants me to do the 2012 AGF with him, I’m tempted. How’s the climbing? I’ve read the ride profiles & Skenes Ck rd doesn’t look like it pitches up more than 6%…any other pitches after that to be worried about?
If I can handle 3 repeats of the 1-in-20 in a session (can do on current fitness and I did Mt Buffalo in back November heavier and in generally in worse condition than I am in now) what are my odds of surviving the AGF? It’s 11 weeks away…
It’s not bad, just hope for good weather. 3 x up 1/20 is definitely a good benchmark. Lots of wheels to suck at the GF as well.
The Skenes Creek climb is fairly tame. I did the 1 in 20 for training, too, and there were no surprises on ‘race’ day.
After that there’s no serious climbs. A couple of little ones towards the end suck a bit, but only becasue by that stage I was buggered!
I trust you’ll be riding fixed, cap’n? 
^ …presuming the course is the same.
Cheers for that, those nice looking ride profiles don’t always tell it like it is. Looks like I’ll be coming back from a short trip to the US 4-5 days before but sounds do-able.
Nope, I’ll leave that for the young guns 
If you’ve trained, like at all, it’ll be a piece of piss. I kinda hadn’t ridden for six weeks before last year and it only told in the last 10km; Skenes Creek had a couple of hairpinny bits that pitched up but nothing that gets close to Mt Pleasant Rd grades.