Helen Georgia Gran Fondo Race in Appalacian Mountains ... Had a cool Geo…
Helen Georgia Gran Fondo Race in Appalacian Mountains ... Had a cool Georgia Gran Fondo Race in Helen GA today. Miles are including warmup and cooldown mainly used for travel from/to my van. Result was not perfect but goal was to use it more as a training race. Did use a bicycle thats not setup for climbing specifically. Had my climbing bike with me but I wanted to test the Madone Gen8 with aerobars setup with the larger front chainrings ... Yes was needed to see how it would feel like in Race around Poland. So it felt better than expected and looks like I need no special adjustment on the setup. Had a faster overall average speed and was able to improve my PR's on lots of the sections including climbing. So that was a good test and shows the new Madone Gen8 is capable to do acceptable climbing and is doing better than the old Gen6. Happy with the outcome. Will do a few more Gran Fondo races to test more things but some of them most likely might switch back to either Emonda SLR or take the aerobars off the Madone SLR. Time will tell. At least a cool Race.
