{"id":18371,"date":"2018-05-24T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?p=18371"},"modified":"2018-05-24T13:52:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T11:52:36","slug":"tdk-2018-stage-6-mountain-tt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2018\/05\/tdk-2018-stage-6-mountain-tt\/","title":{"rendered":"TdK 2018&ndash;Stage 6 Mountain TT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the last stage of the 2018 Tour de K\u00e4rnten. It was a short mountain time trial with a climb of about 1150 m over 16 km. I presented a master class in riding slowly. I couldn\u2019t get my heart rate over 160 bpm in the first few km and at some point I decided it wasn\u2019t going to happen so cruised up to the top at around 140 bpm. There was nothing in my legs today. It was cold and misty at the top so I didn\u2019t hang around and descended back down to where my faithful support crew was waiting \u2013 thanks Leonie! <\/p>\n<p>I was around 5 minutes slower than <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2016\/05\/tour-de-krnten-stage-4-mountain-tt\/\">my ascent in 2016<\/a> and the climb was far less enjoyable than <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2017\/05\/tdk-stage-6-mountain-tt\/\">the mountain TT last year<\/a> where I felt I rode well and passed many people on the way up. This year almost the entire field, it seemed, passed me.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway the 5th Tour de K\u00e4rnten that I\u2019ve taken part in is over. Three out of the six stages were fun. None of them went optimally for me. Stage 5 had the potential to be a good one for me but the awful start behind the broom wagon cost me a lot of energy. <\/p>\n<p>Still, a nice six days of cycling.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/H%C3%B6henprofil_Bergzeitfahren-a-1-768x384.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"324\" title=\"H&ouml;henprofil_Bergzeitfahren-a-1-768x384\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"H&ouml;henprofil_Bergzeitfahren-a-1-768x384\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/H%C3%B6henprofil_Bergzeitfahren-a-1-768x384_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: The mountain TT stage.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/1592594379\/embed\/5ec3331231bb88ff267514bdac4e119d26e817a7\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Above: Slowness.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tour de K\u00e4rnten 2018 Stage 6 \u2013 Mountain Time Trial<\/strong> Time: 01:17:17.8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the last stage of the 2018 Tour de K\u00e4rnten. It was a short mountain time trial with a climb of about 1150 m over 16 km. I presented a master class in riding slowly. I couldn\u2019t get my heart rate over 160 bpm in the first few km and at some point I [&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":[24,67,196,68,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austria","category-cycling","category-racing","category-road-cycling","category-tour-de-karnten","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371","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=18371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18372,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371\/revisions\/18372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}