2026-09-27

Virginia's Blue Ridge Go Cross C2

• Id: 2026-09-27-virginias-blue-ridge-go-cross-c2
• Title: Virginia's Blue Ridge Go Cross C2
• Kind: event
• Discipline: bike
• Surface: cx
• Priority: key
• Planned time: race start (confirm)
• Duration: race
• Distance: ~50 min race
• Intensity: race
• Location: Roanoke, VA
• TrainingPeaks ID: 40520358

Objective

Race for UCI points with a committed start and steady middle laps.

Goal

Back up Saturday: power and heart rate within 3% of the C1.

Reasoning

C2 points still matter. Sunday races have been weaker than Saturdays (Rochester C2: HR 175, 2.6 min at threshold HR), so the goal is backing up Saturday.

Event details

• UCI C2, Roanoke, VA.
• Race breakfast 3-4 h before the start.
• Warm-up 35-40 min: 15 min building, 2 x 3 min at 247-260 W, 3 x 15 sec starts, 5 min easy, then straight to staging while still warm.
• Race.
• Cool-down 15-20 min easy spin.
• Review targets from the race file: first 60 sec from the gun at 350 W or more; normalized power across laps 2-4 at 225 W or more, with no more than a 7% drop from lap 1.

Constraints

• Power meter paired and zeroed before the warm-up; the start and lap numbers depend on it.
• Record the race as its own file, separate from the warm-up.

Recovery

Recovery drink within 30 min (GF/DF, about 1 g/kg carbohydrate and 20-25 g protein), then a full meal within 2 h.

Fuelling

Breakfast of 1.5-2 g/kg carbohydrate from familiar GF/DF foods. 30 g carbohydrate with water 30-45 min before staging, a gel 10-15 min before the gun. Too short for on-bike fuelling: arrive fuelled.

Notes

Warm up a little longer if Saturday's legs are heavy: 45 min rather than 35. Debrief to Luca within 24 h: placing, gap to the winner, start row, lap times, what limited you, and how the legs feel the next morning.