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aliases: ["Long ride — 2025-05-17"]
Is A: Event
Date: "2025-05-17"
Belongs to: "[[2025-05]]"
Related to: ["[[person-luca-rossi]]", "[[person-alessandro-ferrari]]"]
Tags: ["Health", "Sport"]
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# Long ride — 2025-05-17
Long ride with Alessandro. 97km, 942m elevation.

## Notes
- Moderate ride with Alessandro — kept it conversational. He had his second TT race yesterday and improved his time by 45 seconds.
- Flat-ish route through the Arbia valley and out toward Asciano. Low climbing to save the legs — both had hard weeks.
- Alessandro shared that his new skinsuit and aero helmet made a measurable difference — 8 watts saved at the same speed. The marginal gains are real.
- Stopped at the Crete Senesi viewpoint above Asciano. The landscape looks different every season — right now the wheat is chest-high and rippling in the wind.
- Discussed the possibility of doing a bike-packing trip together in autumn. Maybe along the Via Francigena from Siena to Rome. 250km in 3 days.
- Easy pace: 26.5 km/h average, 170W average power. Social ride disguised as training. The best kind.
