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I had to leave practice early, so I wanted to put in a good, hard effort today. I met up with Ishikawa-san, Nakamura-san, Matsunaga-san, and Miyazaki-kun at Koremasa and we headed out towards Sagamihara. We had a good rotation going and kept a solid pace the whole way. After dropping down to the Sagamigawa, we picked up the pace a little bit, and I tried to take longer pulls at the front to improve my power. Towards the end, I put in a small acceleration just to see how my legs were feeling, and when I looked back I'd dropped everyone. Whoops, sorry guys. Right after that we reached the outskirts of Atsugi, and I turned around and headed back the way we'd just came. There was a slight headwind, but it wasn't too bad so I just put my head down and rode at a hard, consistent pace until I got back to Takao. Even though I had to head back early, I feel that I got a good workout today, and I managed to average about 32.2 km/h.

2:56, 95 km