{"id":18111,"date":"2018-05-06T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?p=18111"},"modified":"2018-05-07T22:12:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:12:31","slug":"ruinaulta-ilanz-vals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2018\/05\/ruinaulta-ilanz-vals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruinaulta Ilanz Vals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leonie and I rode the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruinaulta-ilanz-vals.ch\/\">Ruinaulta Ilanz Vals<\/a> today. It\u2019s a 40 km road race with around 950 m of climbing. A short sprint to start the season.<\/p>\n<p>The race felt like a club race not like the usual radmarathon. That was quite nice. It was a hot day and we all lined up on the road just before 11 am. The women left first straight into the first climb and a few minutes later the men headed off. I\u2019m a man so I headed off a few minutes later\u2026 Yes\u2026 It didn\u2019t take long for the field to split apart and it wasn\u2019t long until we entered the Ruinaulta ravine. A small winding road with spectacular views took us through the \u201cschlucht\u201d with descents and ascents. I found a group and stuck with them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18117 size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img-20180506-wa0001-718767234.jpg\" width=\"351\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img-20180506-wa0001-718767234.jpg 780w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img-20180506-wa0001-718767234-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img-20180506-wa0001-718767234-640x853.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img-20180506-wa0001-718767234-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img-20180506-wa0001-718767234-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Above: The route was spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>We headed left at Ilanz around the half way point and started climbing again. At some point I lost the group and road the last few km alone to the finish. There was a nice descent and flat section into the finish so I powered in at just under 50 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>I felt like I had an ok time but then I looked at my average speed and compared it to e.g. most short races in the past\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-sadsmile\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wlEmoticon-sadsmile.png\" alt=\"Sad smile\"><\/p>\n<p>Today my average speed was 27.9 km\/h. My official average speed for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/169052456\">Tannheimer Tal Radmarathon in 2014<\/a> (130 km\/900m) was 38.45 km\/h\u2026. Hmmmm\u2026. Leonie assures me the races aren\u2019t comparable. Sure, the down-hills today were curvy requiring heavy braking at times but I suspect she\u2019s just being nice. Old age. It\u2019s a terrible thing.<\/p>\n<p>Leonie had a good time finishing just 8 minutes after me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180506_124712_HDR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"IMG_20180506_124712_HDR\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180506_124712_HDR_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20180506_124712_HDR\" width=\"364\" height=\"484\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: Posing at the finish line.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1200px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-18111-1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ruinaulta-Ilanz-Vals-2018-720p-web.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ruinaulta-Ilanz-Vals-2018-720p-web.mp4\">https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ruinaulta-Ilanz-Vals-2018-720p-web.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Above: A video of some of the action.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/1553713533\/embed\/a0969ff44ba7d90850408d34ece0d6644c1aec01\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"590\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Above: Strava&#8217;s two cents.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ruinaulta Ilanz Vals 2018<\/b> Time: 1:25:57,0 Dst: 40km\/950m Avg: 27.9 km\/h Max: 69.5 km\/h Place: Overall Men\/Women 109\/165, Category 81\/107<\/p>\n<p>Leonie \u2013 Time: 1:34:01,2 Category 14\/21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bergrennen-Ruinaulta-Ilanz-Vals-Herren.pdf\">Bergrennen Ruinaulta &#8211; Ilanz &#8211; Vals &#8211; Herren<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bergrennen-Ruinaulta-Ilanz-Vals-Category.pdf\">Bergrennen Ruinaulta &#8211; Ilanz &#8211; Vals &#8211; Category<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bergrennen-Ruinaulta-Ilanz-Vals-Gesamt-2.pdf\">Bergrennen Ruinaulta &#8211; Ilanz &#8211; Vals &#8211; Gesamt 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonie and I rode the Ruinaulta Ilanz Vals today. It\u2019s a 40 km road race with around 950 m of climbing. A short sprint to start the season. The race felt like a club race not like the usual radmarathon. That was quite nice. It was a hot day and we all lined up on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing","category-road-cycling","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18111"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18134,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18111\/revisions\/18134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}