Just two seconds 😝 https://images.hive.blog/0x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/nozem01/23swsB5Rj2bY9wtqkTLsNfFvjcM8c7BrVDwNkLsEPDoyojWtKu5szHdVicNWYMXNsUaN8.png Well, after watching this inexperienced old lady trying to beat times that feel like a one‑way trip… hahaha… perhaps the best way to explain the situation is through a short WhatsApp chat that came to me like a glove. I shared a screenshot on my status, and a young cyclist replied.

You have to pick up speed from the railway line. The segment goes all the way to 100th Street. So you need to keep going after climbing the hill until you reach the river bridge.

That’s from over there, where the royal palm is in the background on the left. I’m in the opposite lane, trying to capture in photos the feat I was supposedly about to achieve. A bit of background for anyone who didn’t read my previous post. Who is Hunyaris, and a note on speed and peace

You can see the climb further ahead. Ok, that’s loud and clear. It’s extremely tricky because there are factors like that downhill afterwards to merge onto 100, and you have to brake since 100 has the right of way. I slowed down on the segment because I had to overtake a man riding a bike with a box on the back, and there was also a car behind me. I imagine when the man saw me putting in the power there, he must have exclaimed something like, ‘what a crazy woman!’ And he says:

I’ve got 31 seconds and I don’t even show up in the top 10.

The guys are really tough, I told him.

But try it once you’ve got more than 10 km under your belt, and within those 10 km do two 20‑second sprints. You need to train intervals to improve.

Of course, I didn’t really understand much at first. Later on, when he explained more, I got it: the idea is to increase speed after 7 or 8 km riding at a comfortable cadence, then recover for two or three minutes, and then do another 10‑second sprint… and so on. 😃 https://images.hive.blog/0x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/nozem01/23swsB5Ru5B7QMYCEvVjM1egJDhfEQMKeULT5DaX68BtYLbgdHwdp7u4429NnB85P1Sw6.png On the post which is automatically published on Hive through Strava with my alternative account (@traininglog), @enraizar left me a comment I’ve already seen — he said he’s glad I’m alive. That really made me laugh. 🤣 The relationship between Miss Strava and me is complicated. She claims I went out pedalling at 5:59 a.m., which couldn’t be further from the truth. I left my house at 10 a.m. I overslept today. My intention was to leave at 7 a.m. No… thinking about it, if I had gone out at 7, she would probably say my training and that failed attempt on the segment happened at one or two in the morning. Madness… I’ll have to change something in the settings of… I don’t know where. 🤷‍♀

There you have it! I improved by two seconds, hahaha… how awful. I’ll give it another try next weekend. To wrap up this post and add a bit of colour to this whole madness I got stuck in my head… hahaha… let me tell you that before attempting that effort, I cycled all the way to the Sport City. I was doing a warm‑up beforehand, you know. And I came across this street vendor with a cart who sells vegetables, fruit and imported grains. Imported, he told me — none of this is produced here in Cuba.

And by the way, it’s expensive. To give you an idea, he sells tomatoes at 400 CUP per pound — though one of those tomatoes must weigh two pounds, hahaha… lemons at 700 CUP per pound, onions roughly the same, and potatoes as well. The exchange rate of CUP to USD was set a few days ago by the government at 410, and on the street it’s 435 CUP. I had my lunch already prepared and I just heated it up as soon as I got home. --- _{Original content by @nanixxx.} _{All rights reserved ©, 2025.
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