An Effort Up Box Hill – Winter Endurance Training Ride, Cycling 120 Miles Into The Surrey Hills

Hello and welcome back to the channel! In this weeks video I am taking the training wheels off. No more Max distance, or max heart rate. Just some excitement finally! I went for a max effort up box hill, 4 hours deep into the ride, interesting results… have a good one!

This ride – https://www.strava.com/activities/10782078775

0:00 Intro
2:37 QECP
3:48 Rake
7:14 Box Hill
13:26 Announcement
18:24 Cutting it fine!

Do I talk about something I wasn’t going to talk about actually kind of an [Applause] [Applause] announcement good morning welcome to another you guested Ultra cycling related video if you watched any previous ones thanks a lot for coming back and if this is your first visit I’m Andy I’m ultra

Cyclist on the south coast of the UK the videos I make are about Ultra cycling training and Adventures I’m currently in the thick of my training for the Transcontinental race a 4,000k race from France to Turkey so if you have endurance goals of your own subscribe follow along there sure

There be something in there for you and if not hopefully you teach me something on the car with today I want to have a bit of fun if you’ve been watching for a little while you’ll know that I put a limit on my heart rate and the length of my rides through the

Winter try to keep my heart rate at or below 150 beats per minute and my rides out or below 100 miles but today going to go off plan I’ve got about 120 mi from Portsmouth Northbound to Box Hill and no more limiting the heart rate I’m just

Going to push on all the way there and back have a bit of Fun He Just passed through Petersfield if you from around this way it’s a really well- hidden mural you may not know that the tour to France in 94 started and finished in Portsmouth it’s quite rare that it starts and finishes in the same city but it came through a Petersfield and that’s what

The mural shows handily now though they’ve put electricity box right in the way of the toor of France Park so you probably never know climbing now the beard out of breath oh that was stage one started and finished in Portsmouth not the whole Tour what of you that’s the first sizeable climb done up to a place called Rake in the South down still about halfway through the South Downs so from here on it’s all descending and then towards sari Hills always stop here for a Brea cuz it’s absolutely gorgeous He Not too far from BX hill now so about a 50 Mi warm up for the climb and about 3,000 ft of climbing already roughly so not the freshest this is a part of a longer route I do in the summer longer rout is about 160 mil and goes to boxill leth Hill

Brighton by ditchling Beacon if you know that it’s absolutely Savage I never really fancy that Today I’ve just passed through dking so very very close to the climb now maybe like half a mile segment starts as soon as you hit zigzag Road it’s a road to zigzags so let’s do it okay here we are on the world famous Box Hill Climb Up zigzag Road in sry

Just south of London this is the climb you’ll know from zift and was also used in the 2012 London Summer Olympics I won’t show the entire climb it took me about 8 minutes to get to the top that’s about 30 seconds slower than my own pi

And about twice as long as the k for the climb reasonably happy with the climb given that my Mason is so much heavier than my tarmac and I’m a few kilos heavier at the moment than I was when I got that PR but a bit about expectation

Versus reality here when I planned this ride and was talking about it on the way up I really expected to Smash Up the client I don’t follow power numbers during the ride I can’t see them actually so putting this overlay on afterwards it’s now Tuesday and looking

At the numbers they’re lower than I expected but then I had been riding for 4 hours by this point had one little stop on the way off and that was it so roll straight into the climate I pretty much exclusively use heart rate for pacing during longer rides if you watch

This and you’re planning to come and ride Box Hill maybe you can use the power data to judge your own effort later and as always said I’ll show the good and the bad on this channel so even if they’re not numers I’ve really wanted and I’m not really happy with put them

Up anyway so as of recording this it’s Tuesday now mostly recovered still feel it a tiny little bit in my legs the ride was on Saturday normally I’d be recovered by now it’s quite a hard ride actually there some good training so I’ll leave this with you for a few more

Minutes I won’t show the whole thing but if anybody wants to see the whole climb I’ve got the whole file let me know in the comments if you’re interested anyway anyway back to the Ride Just nothing Mak You I Back Never do I it’s not bad if VI was it definitely worth the climb up and about halfway around and suddenly really aware of a bit of a headwind on the way back hopefully it’s just where I’m up a bit higher but let’s see had a pretty good brownie and a flat

White and bumped into a guy who just flew past me at the climb called Tom if you do watch this Tom good to meet you mate you’re flying up there time to get home now 60 MI about 4 hours probably to get back and hopefully no rain All Right finally all of the busiest of the Su roads really like coming out this way to Box Hill but the further you get into Su the closer to London the more snug up the roads tend to get a bit more inhospitable should say that I’m back onto the nice

Roads I’m probably stating the obvious a little bit my legs hurt now about 40 mil or so to get home but a good exercise in being knackered and having a push on anyway but it was really good fun so no regrets on this Quiet Road it’s probably a good time

Now to talk about something I wasn’t going to talk about actually I was in two minds kind of an announcement more of a thank you I started this channel a few months ago I’ve mentioned that probably every single video it’s quite new to me and I started it

Because I was recording stuff on my phone for family and stuff and without realizing it quite enjoyed it so bought a camera for PVP and here I am now making videos for YouTube or trying the main reason I did this to begin with was for the outlet really something

To talk to on Long rides on my own all day and I like it but the secondary goal is to try to build it up maybe get some sort of Partnerships some sort of help with the cost cuz Ultra it’s not cheap an unexpected third benefit it’s kind of

The community aspect it’s a kind of a hardcore of a few well a few Fair few people seem to comment on every video so I’m meeting new people they’re suggesting things for me and we’re all kind of helping each other which I really like I didn’t expect

That that’s kind of the reason I was in two minds about even about even bringing this up I see posts from other people other YouTubers when they hit Benchmark numbers and subscribers and kind of can come off a bit like that’s just a number uh so I don’t really want that but

Yesterday my channel ticked past a thousand subscribers and obviously that’s the partnership Benchmark kind of the goal for most people is to hit a th000 so thanks honestly really surprised there’s a thousand people out there interested in watching what I’m making I’ll carry on just doing what I enjoy filming along

The way I enjoy it hopefully you stick along for the ride bit longer I thought I’d at least wait until after the climb if you watching until now then you probably subscribe cried or at least enjoying or at least enjoying the video quite a few people click off after short amount of time

So thank you it’s much Climbing I’m on all the same roads now back that I was on this morning and it’s looking like might run out of daylight yeah less than ideal really but let’s see how I go luckily following the train line all the way back so I’ll roll into Petersfield see how much daylight there

Is at that point whether I can navigate the lanes safely or not if not I’ll get the train Well well well it’s roll through Petersfield and I think we’re going to make it thund is about to go down soon but it is well lit soon so should be fine bit wetter than I’d like though but come a time in the summer I’ll be praying for this weather so suck it

Up this was the last clip I recorded for some reason my camera didn’t work so I got back it was a little dark but I made all the way through I did have lights had three lights the front light I use just blinks for daytime so isn’t really

Suitable for dark Lanes but I made it back fine thanks again for watching I appreciate it as always have a really good week I’ll see you on the next one