Today may have been my last chance to train distance before 16 maj and Billingeracet so I sort of combined all my favourite routes together. First up the cykelväg from Sävedalen since this is gravel and nicer than the road. This took me up to Furulund where I turned in and headed onto the 7.5km running trail I mentioned before. After those hills I already felt quite crap and I didn't have any desire to catch up to the other MTB cyclist in front of me. Instead of continuing all the way around, I cut off towards the Kåsjön parking area to join the cykelväg towards Landvetter. Then it was time for the Tahult - Härkeshult - Jonsered route which was just the same as usual...hills but still road. My legs felt great at this point so I kept going at a steady pace. Back in the valley I turned north on Lexbyvägen up the hill again to my favourite little logging road.

Originally I was going to take that last but I decided it was a good time and headed off towards Paradiset. Of course I discovered why I liked the road last week because in reverse direction it slowly climbed all the way back up the hill I just came down. So by the time I reached the end of that I had been out for 90 minutes and thought it was time for a break and some pictures.

Yep, only 10 km from Avenyn you find this. And if I write bike porn again I am sure to get a hit from Google yet again. =)

You can also see some tractor marks which were nothing compared to everything else in the way on this road.

Here I look ready to continue my ride. Perhaps also I look like I have seen a few hills.

Switching direction meant that I could enjoy this bit of gravel hell back to the road. There I seemed to be following a LVG guy from HCK and was also keeping up but instead of passing I turned off on that gravel road heading over to Angereds kyrka since it is much nicer (hills + gravel = nice). Down again to Gunnilse and I was going to turn around but I didn't feel tired so I followed some cykelväg signs pointing up to Rannebergen. Fy fan was that a nasty set of hills. The road part was bad enough but then it switched to a lovely forest trail and went straight up. At the top was some kind of lake (St Molnsjön or something) with a nice trail around it which was a natural turning around point...especially since people did not seem to like that I was there.

Heading back was a story of wind but nowhere near as bad as last week. The hills were hurting but I kept at it and by 2.5hr or so I was back on the road down to Lexby. Again, I felt like I had something left to give so I went flat out along the rest of that road back to Partille station. Was I tired? Yes, my legs were burning. Did I have the energy crash? No. So I added a bit of an extra loop out towards Utby and then across to Hemköp and back home but still no energy crash.

Time: 3:03:59
Distance: 58.5km
Höjdmeter: I am guessing at least 700m
Hr ave: 159
Hr peak: 187
Energy: 2382 kcal

So you are probably wondering if the Enervit Pre Sport worked? The answer is nja. It did not help right away but certainly I lasted longer. I also stopped for my banana and cookies earlier this week. And my Hr ave is lower which suggests that last week probably helped my overall fitness. So it might have helped a bit. It certainly did not hurt.