A cycling Watts Fest on Mauna Kea

Feb 25/2024
Hey Riders……
Yes it’s that time again for another all out assault!!! Can you hang on? Will you blow up gloriously? Can you break away and go for a solo victory? Whatever it may be, it’s all about the experience of riding with others and getting a crazy hard, but short workout in every Sunday.

Show Notes:
The route:
https://riders.rouvy.com/route/89671

Gem City ICC:
https://gemcityicc.com/

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/InsideCyclingWorld

Hey Riders here we go back in the saddle again time for a Watts Fest how do you like that snazzy little opening all I can say thank you Anthony uh Anthony’s a member of Team JC super supportive always giving me ideas throwing Graphics at me and so I’m

Trying to implement them now I’ve had these for quite a while it’s just takes a lot of time to do all this stuff you know uh your normal life your normal training then doing videos trying to improve on them every time uh covering different races watching different

People okay so I’m just going to jump out here for a second and we’re going to see where we are today so we are going to be doing the W coloa climb in Hawaii it’s only uh 8.5 km long with 237 M of climbing so that’s like just over 5

Miles 5 and a/4 Miles maybe with 700 ft of climbing the first I think it’s 3 and 1/2 kilm uh are basically false flat now I know everyone likes a nice false flat I know I sure do how about you Kraken um and after that you can see

Just on the screen on the profile then the climbing begins so the climbing is all wedged into the back half of the course but it’s not crazy uh I think Max gradients you’re going to see around 9% but you know it’s in a pretty confined space right you know I think

The average in the back part of the course is 4 to 5% um so you know it’ll be tough in places but this is a really good route and I always tell people one of my favorite routes this is basically an allout uh Power test you know I don’t

Want to say it’s a 20-minute power test because some people are going to do this in 16 minutes some people are going to do this in 25 to 30 minutes or whatever your number may be but for me it’s about a 20-minute power test so that kind of

Gives me a good bearing as to where my FTP kind of is just on a 20 minute uh example and to be honest I don’t even really believe the 20 minute FTP you know where they say 20 minutes and then take off what is it 5% yeah

They always say take off 5% I’m got to think it’s probably more like 15% minimum I don’t think I could hold uh what I’ve done on this course for anywhere near an hour like impossible so I think when I got my fastest time on this course uh my 20- minute power and

Remember when I say 20 uh my FTP that’s for 20 minutes okay here I’m adjusting the camera I just want to show you that you can do this before the ride in fact you can do it during the ride pretty coincidental because I just had someone pop in and watch one of my

Starter videos this morning and they asked that question hey how do I change the camera angles well that’s how you do it so I just happen to be doing it for you uh so when I got my fastest time on this 19 minutes 58 seconds uh I think from two years ago

Maybe or or last year I didn’t have a fast bike yet uh but I did manage 318 Watts for that virtually 20 minutes 19 minutes and 58 seconds uh I couldn’t do that for an hour though there’s no way even if you took 5% off even if you took 10% off I

Couldn’t do it anyways folks uh enough of that getting to the race here GRC Sunday short race w coloa it’s about to go off five four 3 2 one boom so we’re off folks uh 74 people registered for this 51 started let’s see how many finish in the GRC group so

There’s a ton of names here I know there’s also quite a few names I don’t know um I found these rides to be very popular with people it’s a short in tense workout you know you can schedule it into your day uh your week you know

Do some long RS hey take a look over on the left here here’s Global Ragnar right now just over my left shoulder uh he’s in the darker color jersey there uh doesn’t really look like his style of Jersey to be honest usually he likes to wear something a lot more

Colorful uh bold outgoing flamboyant whatever you want to call it but yeah love the jerseys uh so in a nice little group here got a bunch of riders around me uh you can see arar is right ahead of me Honest Jack is just up ahead I can see

Dawn as well so I didn’t go crazy off the start here I just kind of slowly wound my way up you know look at me I’m sitting in 31st Place at at this moment I didn’t want to blow myself up right at the beginning and then struggle so I

Kind of just took a chill and to be honest sometimes when I go into these on Sundays I kind of feel like well maybe I’ll just hang back and get a bunch of Good Foot footage um but realistically what I should be doing is I should do this

Route myself or something different and I should sit on the sidelines and watch these so I can get more action because there’s all sorts of battles going on up the road here’s naby styles with me at the moment uh M senos who I just noticed

Mieno is now riding as a GRC member so that’s pretty cool I think I first seen mix senos at some of the muckers events got Steven Cycles just the road we got Anthony from Canada don’t forget Anthony’s the one that made the opening sequence for this video thank you again

Anthony I can see Jill’s up ahead too just behind me I’ve got uh Roger from GRC he’s right behind me right now and I can just see Dawn creeping up here from behind too uh so super solid group here and you know this is all that you can

See on the screen oh I can see Holly’s up ahead too so Holly is our Ultra lightweight pesky little climber that rides with Team GRC she does great every week on climb so I expect her to be way out front in this one it may be a little bit too fast

For her this week but we’re soon going to find out uh so yeah Dawn’s just hovering behind so what you got to realize folks is that there’s a huge pack of people behind me too and they’re just like a second two second 3 seconds behind me and so you kind of forget

About that like so for me when I’m doing these rides and I’m working pretty hard now you know I’m doing three and a half watts per kilo up this nice false flatty stuff and again we all love false Flats right Kraken uh where is Kraken I got to

Find him on here uh so Kraken 71 that’s pavl uh part of the Discord and GRC um always seem around we can have a running joke about all the false Flats we like to ride um because I seem to call everything a false flat for some reason

It’s just my style uh okay so you can only see three people behind me but there’s probably another 20 within two three seconds of that so I know Ragnar is just there he’s hanging out behind me SR71 is just like probably a couple seconds back Ander Wigan from G here

Great to see I also not uh noticed earlier that um oh look Jon’s ahead of me at this point so John had a rocket start and I kind of like just wound it up slowly uh so we got a g Rider we got Andrew wigam here seen this Rider a lot

Here’s Anthony cruising up and uh Eduardo Armada for G is here as well that dude is way out front right now hitting the big Watts uh okay so let’s take a little look what’s going on here so Dawn’s creeping up we got jills is right here mieno is SR71 Steven cyes

There’s Kraken 71 uh currently 17 meters ahead of me now I’m not really sure if I pass Kraken or not I mean remember this just happened 5 hours ago I’ve already forgot what happened and look at this we got sorell here too so we used to ride a lot with

Sorell um over the last couple years I think sorell does a lot of outside rides he’s another Canadian he’s in Ontario so if you watch the video uh follow SEL and straa you know friend him uh he’s always good for a ride likes to do some long

Climbs with us um not so much recently I think we’ve all been kind of doing our own thing but uh we’ll ride together whenever we can okay so like I’m surrounded by GRC members here G remember we got Kraken kraken’s leading the way on my screen but there’s groups

Ahead of us already so if you look at the bottom profile right now the group I’m in is the blue bubble on the bottom that’s me actually and so you can see little other white bubbles bubbles scattered out across the course um I do notice that there’s a

Yellow Rider a yellow bubble on the far left hand side of the profile now I think someone starts this event very late because everyone that started finishes that’s the beauty of these GRC events we have a really high finish rate uh because you know they’re short

We’re not going to make them easy on you we don’t want them to be easy we’re trying to balance these between climbers and you know uh the power hitters we don’t want to have just an allout climbing event because it’s not far fair to the bigger

Riders uh and some of the T the TTS may be really tough if they’re longer they’d be really really tough on the climbers so I’d like to see this uh yellow dot start moving because I didn’t notice this when I was riding I’m too much in the zone at the moment uh so

Jumping back here we got sr71s behind me Anthony’s there I can see Tony’s there as well I’m just cruising up on sell here getting a bit of a draft and jills is just up ahead with Dawn I think this might be where I kind of start losing contact with

Him I felt okay on this I got to admit I’m a little tiny fatigued from my Vegas trip I still have not caught up on my sleep um but all excuses aside this is hard you’re trying to you know dose your effort how hard do I go because you can

See right ahead of me virtually at the midpoint there’s two white bubbles that are already hitting the first climbs we’re just getting to it now so how long can you hold 3 3 and 1 12 watts per kilo and then start hitting the hills and not completely

Explode uh that’s what you’re trying to play here so split ones coming up another thing I want to talk about folks is um I do have another video it’s in production at the moment now that sounds really fancy but that just means I got to put some effort into it and do

My audio and stuff like that so on Friday this almost killed me got back from Vegas 2:30 in the morning I was up at 4:30 just resume my life I was recording videos all day long off and on not 247 obviously uh that was the Gem

City TT team time trial event that we did in uh I think it’s called shenuka about 19 km long there was eight teams that took part I think one team at four members but all the rest had five members so it’s kind of like an average

Of the overall time of the team uh it was a group ride which is really cool so there’s a little bit of a magnet effect helping you in either direction um you can’t get too far ahead you can but you want to be ahead to help

Your leader so yeah it was awesome that video should be out soon just depends what happens here today uh in my life uh do I have enough time to record it so let’s look back here what’s going on now so I just currently riding behind Ender wigam and this uh this new Rider

Here his looks like his name is Phil Phil dormy uh level one Rider so give this guy credit for coming out and racing at level one I mean yeah I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that before because when you’re level one you can level up two three levels in one ride it

Seems like the leveling up is very fast when you’re down low and then it takes forever at the end okay so I can just see behind me at the back here I got SR71 and Kraken is still um you know I don’t want to say the last Rider because

He’s not he’s just three Riders behind me on my leaderboard so I still see Kraken CSR 71 I’ve got Phil dormy behind me but yeah again check this Phil out great job dude for like jumping into a race for that what could be almost your first ride I mean maybe someone else can

Tell me how long does it take on Ruby to go from level one to level two we all know it’s not very long right uh throw some comments down below uh so we got Ender wigam up ahead kind of getting away from me now and I can see jills is

Getting away Granddad Rick Granddad Rick had a great ride today too I’m going to take a look look at the map here so just a stream of riders we’re riding through all the uh volcanic uh lava Fields here I mean Hawaii is just constantly destroying and remaking itself forever growing

Right uh the flows come out they start breaking down then they have fertile soil there and you got stuff growing everywhere but you know when you decide to start building houses nearby uh yeah they can be quickly gone so I mean take a look on the right hand side of the

Road two I think there’s three giant looks like probably oil tanks or I don’t even know what those are they’re huge tanks I think it showed up on my map view as well so yeah Ender wigam and Jill start getting away from me here and uh Dawn Granddad Rick bash’s just the

Row to bash is definitely not 100% because usually he’d be a little bit further ahead uh he says he’s 95 we’ll see uh he’s been going through some sickness so yeah uh still got Phil Kraken and SR71 just you know four or five seconds behind me at this kind of

Pace you know every 10 meters is about a second that’s my rule of thumb when I’m riding so when I’m kind of cruising and I mean it doesn’t apply all the time if you’re bombing downhill or going up a brutal climb but just like a like a rule of thumb

Average if I see someone that’s 80 M behind me 7 8 Seconds something like that so I can kind of figure out how hard I have to work to make sure they’re not going to catch me so we are maybe a third of the way up

The climb but there are like Parts where it levels off a little bit into more false flatty territory uh and I’m hitting it right here so at this point here we’re in that 4% range which you know you should be able to Big Ring this stuff if you’re

You know kind of a bit more of a power rider maybe some of the uh smaller Riders are just spinning um yeah like I’m riding here in the 70s may you know mid to high 70s at times heart rate’s getting uh it’s getting up there you know it’s I’m currently sitting at 184

185 uh it’s probably riding Just a Touch High compared to normal just a little bit um if you’ve never seen one of my videos before I always talk about it my my heart rate’s always high when I’m riding it’s in the mid to high 50s when I’m chilled out and it’ll blow right

Through through 190 if I’m going hard uh but I got a little bit of a Vagas effect on me still so you know 7 days off the bike 5 days in Vegas very little sleep uh yeah it’s going to affect your heart rate down the road uh so yeah it

It does get up there so yeah I’m still doing great here uh I’m trying to keep around 300 watts if I can knowing that my best time ever I average 318 and I kind of know already I’m not going to do that today uh Hey coming up from behind here

Look who’s coming it’s Alex a team GRC uh so I’ve got three GRC Riders behind me one two three four of them ahead of me with a one single G member wedged in there and then we got good old Phil level one Rider just killing it

Here with us uh yeah that’s really cool to see so at times here I’m trying to bridge back to jills um you know and sometimes some Riders will like slow down try to help you and at this point I’m just telling myself and I’m hoping everyone else is just doing their own

Ride just do just do your ride uh but as you can see here Alex is coming up really strong behind me uh he’s pushing four and a half watts per kilo there he’s only less than 30 meters back and hey this is why it’s great to be on a

Team because you’re going to have allies nearby you know they may not be in the situation to help you every time but when they can they’re generally going to lend you a wheel if possible so I’m kind of thinking hm what’s Alex going to do

Here is he going to just blow right by me uh or is he going to help this old guy out and uh Alex being the nice guy I noticed he’s not doing four and a half watts per kilo anymore he’s just slowly creeping up behind me I noticed here too

That Anthony is starting to pull me back a little bit and so is Roger both lighter weight lighter climbers than me uh I don’t even want to put myself in the category or of a climber um and they’re not Ultra lightweights either they they can put out a good amount of power but

Definitely I noticed a difference on the Hills when I’m riding against them and it’s probably my riding style too they tend to I think stand more uh and I just refuse to I just I can’t I don’t feel comfortable so look at this job here by Alex he’s cruising up right beside

Me Yep this is what this is how you do it and slowly slots in in front and gives me a nice little toe so here I am check the top of the screen I’m getting a nice little draft here but I’m also telling myself I’m saying to myself

Thank you Alex I I appreciate this uh but I’m also telling myself don’t ruin your own race do your own thing because I’m trying to do my thing too um and I’m getting a nice little rest here you can see it um I’m not really having to work that hard I’m kind of

Under 3 watts per kilo look at this 2.4 2.3 watts per kilo here because of the assist from Alex so but you know eventually at some point Alex will probably realize too ah Collins doesn’t really have it today uh I got to move on so here we actually passed someone who

Disconnected so that was ukone 64 so I’m going to have to look into that because when I saw the stats everyone that started finish so maybe they reconed later um and I’m and I’m thinking about it here too that yellow dot it’s on the far left hand side of the screen I guess

They showed up but they never turned a pedal so they were never technically a starter maybe that’s how it works I wasn’t sure about that um I thought if you showed up you were CED as a starter but maybe not so you can see at this point here Alex is pulling away and

Anthony is now down to 80 M working with Rogers I remember when I was uh doing this ride I’m like uhoh here they come I’ve got two of them working together hunting me down but honestly I’m just doing my ride here I’m not getting racy you can probably see that my wattage is

About the same the entire time um I’m not kicking up to four and a half 5 watts per kilo when I can kind of chill I don’t want to say chill I mean that’s the wrong word to use here but just kind of the same thing you’re

Watching look take a look at my power uh 280 300 watts you know maybe a little bit over maybe a little bit under I just kind of consistent that way so we got Jill’s pulling away now the hills are getting in between us Alex is starting to move as well Dawn’s pushing

Really hard at the front and Granddad Rick and Holly are riding together uh they’re like riding basically it looks like side by side so yeah kind of a nice little battle there I wish I could have caught that one uh so as I’m kind of I’ve went down a

Little bit of a hill there before I pulled out a little bit of a distance on Anthony and Roger and then Here Comes naby Styles so I know there’s a ton of riders just hanging out right back there so right now again they’re 10 11 12 seconds behind me these guys and there’s

Probably a bunch more behind that so I just got to keep my pace and just keep doing what I’m doing you know we’ve got uh coming out of a bit more of a false flat here we’re going to kick up again you can see it

Coming right now but this is kind of the end of The Climb you’re going to do a bit of a climb and then a little bit more false flatty and then it’s over uh so yeah like a really really good 20 minute allout effort uh yeah so they’re 40 50 meters

Ahead of me Dawn’s out 120 M Holly and Granddad Rick are almost 200 meters ahead and you can see there’s riders that are finishing now uh and so the rider that finished first was under 16 minutes and happy to say it was Ardo Armada from the ger

Team so great to see him out there just absolutely hammering it okay so I can’t see where bashak is now he’s somewhere off the screen up ahead but look what’s going on behind me uh Anthony and Roger who are better climbers than me and knobby too uh they’re slowly creeping up behind me

Here I don’t want to think there’s too much draft going on there but probably been more of hey we can always catch him if we go hard and you know at this point here too I thought I might be able to bridge up to jills he’s only 52 M ahead

Of me so jills again he’s 5 six seconds up the road for me and I’m thinking well can I but I don’t really make any efforts I’m just like riding if you take a look at the screen again around 300 watts plus or minus 20 30 Watts either direction depending how hard I’m

Pedaling uh depending if I’m distracted shifting gears whatever it may be but yeah those writers behind me especially Anthony he’s coming back uh he’s the one that’s closest to me kni and uh Roger are just a little bit further back from that okay so still cruising on

Here yeah this looks good got some crazy noises going outside I think the dogs are having the Royal Rumble outside in the in the yard uh yeah so jills at this point he is just putting out a little bit more power than me and now he

Started to pull away from me so again I’m not counterattacking I’m not attacking I’m just doing my ride at this point I don’t think I ever really go nuts on this one but I I would love to have seen what was going on by behind me uh yeah Dawn’s still looking good out

There yeah great ride by Dawn haven’t seen a ton of dawn lately uh he must be busy riding outside because he does live in Florida he’s probably got spectacular weather this time of year so here we are folks you can see here we’re into the last 500

MERS uh I’m just under I’m just under 20 minutes here at this point and if you look at the profile on the bottom you can see all those little bubbles there’s so many different groups that you can finish with so what we’re going to do is we’re going to finish up

Our ride and and check this out here too they’re still trying to come back at me uh jills is about 80 MERS ahead and I’m just doing my thing no Sprint here from me I’m just going to like do my normal ride as I like to say I’m just cruising

At this point um heart’s kind of coming out of my chest you can take a look at my heart now 191 I think at some point I hit 192 so I’m working hard um this is very normal for me and it doesn’t feel like I’m going to pass

Out or blow a gasket or anything like that so uh great job by all the finishes up ahead of me so what I’m going to do here is finish I think I kind of even let off at the end here I think I kind of Coast I think I

Coasted across the Finish Line to be honest well it shows me pedaling yeah okay I am coasting so I do remember that part at least so I’m finishing and you know I was pretty winded here so instead of doing my normal um all out conversation I’m just going

To continue like this so obviously this is after the fact usually I put my microphone back in and do it so I noticed this here uh last Rider on course was a rider named I think I think she’s probably oh Kraken just finished there so I’m trying to get

To the front now here’s that Phil d uh Dorney guy the level one Rider see Phil’s leveled up to level two during the ride so I got to say that was Phil’s first race on Ruby has to have been if he leveled up from level

One to level two during the ride on such a short ride I maybe that was his first ride ever on Ruby could you imagine that hey here’s Dez riding with Paulo galini I’m just kind of bouncing around here getting a feel as to who’s out here Phil

Dorney finishing I’m going to send a message to Phil Dorney on uh on Ruby later and see if he’ll tell me if this is his first right we got David 1951 here Marvin Martian Kristoff Patterson maybe it’s Christopher uh here’s Don on hey got to tell you someone Dan on he’s

Pretty awesome in making websites in fact you should check out the Gem City website I’m going to put a link at the end of this video I’ll also put a link at the end of the uh the team time trial video but yeah it details all of the uh

Just just a quick map you there folks details all the stuff that gem City’s doing and just everyone knows yes this is a team GRC event but we do a lot of stuff with Gem City Kristen here gem city Rider donon Gem City Rider uh SR71

Gem City Rider so there’s there’s a few of them here with us and they’re very consistently rotting with ggar 69 um definitely in our Discord group just coming for the Finish year see now that things have kind of settled down and that big group behind me uh has finished

I can start focusing on other folks you can see here that if you were to jump in this race there’s a ton of different people you could ride with tons of different levels um so I missed all the finishers behind me like kni just caught krck and SR71 Global Ragnar I missed all

Of them Roger uh I can’t even think of all the other names there so many of them because they’re finishing just seconds behind me check this out here we’ve got David 1951 and Steve uh he’s 19 Steve 55 and he’s putting a push on here I got to think

These guys are close in age and Steve’s going for the pass can David react David does holds his position I thought that was a fun little Sprint there uh we got Marvin Martian coming for the finish here and so most of these Riders are going to finish kind of at their own

Pace they’re like all like just a couple hundred meters apart but like just think about what I just said there it’s a couple hundred meters so like if you’re nervous about racing and you think well I don’t want to be dead last there’s always someone to ride with and actually what I thought

Was really good hey here’s ciderman cruising up on uh oh we got eat more cake behind ciderman ciderman is chasing Honest Jack so these Riders there’s about five of them coming in I think I go to a map view at some point here there we go like that kind of just

Blew my mind how I did that there there’s five Riders all in the line here all spread out by about 100 meters and I was wondering is something going to happen here’s donon danon’s chasing eat more cake our Welsh Rider uh chasing ciderman chasing Honest Jack chasing

Kristoff I’m just going to say Kristoff for now it might be Christopher I’m just saying within last name Patterson I’m going to think it’s a Christopher gotta say that right uh yeah so here’s eat more cake the The Perennial GRC uh event Rider and then uh got donon J margolus

Good to see him out here uh Kristen’s coming up actually Kristen and Jay are riding together and I’m not sure if Jay is Jeff I think it might be Jeff just going to say Jay for now you know I like to make up names for people uh so we got J margoles here’s

Ciderman finishing ciderman love ciders love them that’s about all I really like to drink that and rum okay let’s not get on that uh so yeah check this out got Kristen here Jem City Rider J margolus side by side riding nice they’re back in uh where are we here

45th and 46th place danon’s a couple hundred meters up the road so danon’s 20 seconds up the road from these two uh then we got Paulo galini is chasing Gio mlin yeah Paulo galini is chasing Gio Merlin um I think I remember uh GI Merlin’s name take a look at this

Kristen is going in deep here she’s dropping some Watts up to four watts per kilo you can tell Kristen’s a lightweight Rider uh and just put a jump just put a d dig in to Jay and pulled out a 20 M Gap here so you can see here

Too 45th 46th place you got people to ride with but no one’s slouching at all uh Kristen just uh made a quick move there and bridged away from Jay everyone’s competitive Everyone likes to have fun great job with these two Riders sticking together and then having their own little battle at the

End there uh that was H Rico so here’s Paulo galini and Gio Merlin riding together now at one point here one of them one of them starts pulling away from the other yeah it looks like Gio Merlin oh maybe it’s Paulo galini what is going to happen here

Folks and then we still got at the very back we have a rider called abyon and I’m got to say it’s Abalone that’s what I’m kind of thinking maybe there’s like a play on words there like Abalone um we’ve got uh Dez here as well

AKA did and he’s only known as did by me so no one mistake that uh the first time I saw him riding I was probably in a delirium following a race after I’d finished and I never saw the dots in his name so I called him DDA the whole race

He’s very far from a DDA he’s a Dez he’s from the UK so let’s I’m keeping that straight from that one so yeah you can see here uh Dez is in 50th with AB abyon Abalone maybe uh in 51st Place and Abalone is riding really strong here uh closing the gap on

Dez okay so here it is Gio Merlin has pulled away from Paulo galini you know both riding nicely together maybe a bit of draft not a lot here so yeah check this out abyon is riding you know three three and a half watts per kilo looks like an ultra lightweight

Climber so is going to close the gap on Dez really quick there um it looked like she was like somewhere less than 60 kg in weight so she’s the last woman Rider on course I don’t actually know if she started when everyone else started that’s what I’m trying to figure out

Here uh it’s hard to go back and look at it um it’s easier when I follow it from a distance when I’m not involved in the race but yeah so we still got five Riders out here and so like I said keep remembering that 51 Riders started this

Event and we got 51 out there still that I think that’s really cool uh H Rico coming to the finish uh this is the first time i’ ever seen H Rico so thanks for joining us hope to see you again next weekend uh Gio Merlin’s pulling a little

Bit of a gap here on uh Paulo galini and you can see here these are all the Riders here that’s D and then we go back to like ayon they’re all right here there’s not much of a gap okay so yeah abone has passed has at

This point you know she’s pushing over 3 wats a kilo up the hill being like a let’s just say 56 kg ride or something like that she’s just going to like rip up any Hill um and that’s what they do these lightweight pesky climbers okay so Paulo’s over the worst

Of the climb H Rico just finished you can just see them on the profile on the bottom right hand side of the screen uh abyon still flying still pushing ring up over 3 watts per kilow at times she’s in the false flatty stuff now so something’s gone up front that I

Missed it’s Paulo’s gotten past Gio Merlin now just taking a look at that I’m not sure when I’m going to bounce back to it so like obviously if I was doing this watching it go down I’d be jumping to them quickly but um just on Abalone here for a little bit

Dez is just kind of slipping back but he’s only 100 meters back at this point not much at all okay here we go back to Dez checking him out he’s doing fine here heat’s not getting to him too bad yet uh yeah I got to get back to Hawaii

At some point I went last March no bike just did the real touristy stuff you know W key key uh the USS Arizona that was incredible uh the Missour there as well you could do a day trip and do that that’s like a big tour I think and that

Thing is so impressive uh but yeah seeing the Arizona wow chilling um did the Diamond Head thing went to the NorthShore we met a local dude who took us to this uh he was a worked for a company that took you to this Turtle place it’s out by Diamond

Head you can go scuba diving out there and snorkeling we did all that here’s Paulo come to the Finish that’s keep an eye on G Merin here for a second I just want to watch GI Merlin finish uh cuz Gio Merlin for some reason does not show

Up on the time board so he’s got a Time on straa here’s abyon again catching Gio Merlin now she’s just three Watts a kilo all the way lightweight even on this false fatate really helps her it’s a great job here I don’t know who this

Rider is either I’m going to send them a friend uh friend request send them a message let me know who you are so yeah here she comes past him GI Merlin doesn’t really respond probably tired give him that puts a little kick in tries to get her wheel but she’s carrying too much

Momentum and she’s gone by now I think I get within a couple of meters of seeing Gio Merlin finish and actually he puts in some power he’s finishing strong nice job nice job puts a dig in and I probably don’t watch him cross the finish line because

I bounce back to Dez and so I can see Gio Merlin up ahead he’s still moving and now he’s on the right hand side of the screen and there’s no one left on the leaderboard that means Gio Merlin has finished uh so we just got Dez out

Here so again yeah Hawaii did every I so I met that dude on that trip he picked us up three days later we said hey dude we just want to see the entire Island he drove us around the entire Island we went to the NorthShore check this thing the coolest thing

Ever he says Hey do you remember the show Lost and we’re like yeah it’s one of my favorite shows he’s like I was an extra in there for like I think he was in the extra for like almost the entire show and if and so I started watch again

You can see him he’s one of those guys in the background carrying things around on the beach I think he does have a couple lines in the show his name is Jimmy James uh cool dude he’s in the show trust me anyways here’s Dez finishing great job Dez just keep

Consistency keep showing up keep riding get stronger every time so anyway folks that was another ride another GRC event thanks again for Anthony for this you to man we’ll catch you again real soon thanks everyone