Skinned up at 5am for the sunrise descent. Powder was untouched.
Replay flies the camera along your GPS trace and reads back the time, distance and heart rate at every point. Green pin is the start, red is where you stopped.
Speed held together well — the dips are the corners and the junctions, not fatigue. Average 4.1 km/h across 14.20 km.
Cardiac drift of 7 bpm across the session at a steady effort — that is normal, and lower than it was three months ago at the same pace. That gap is your aerobic fitness improving.
1,400 m of climbing over 14.20 km — that is 99 m per kilometre. This is a climbing day, and the pace chart should be read with that in mind.
73% of this session sat at threshold or above. That is a real stimulus — and it needs 48 hours before the next hard one.
