A week Training in Tenerife

Saturday 6th of December:

I got into Tenerife mid afternoon and made my way to the hotel fairly sharp to get the bike built up and out for a short spin to make sure everything was dialled in for the week ahead. The weather was good and looked good for the week ahead. I did a short climb up to San Miguel just above my resort of Golf Del Sur

Garmin Data 6th December

Sunday 7th December:

Last year when I was in Tenerife I never made my way to the north of the Island so that was top of the list for excursions for the week and I plotted a route to Gumer which is quite far north. The road to Gumer was fairly rolling and meandering I would cover about 70km to get to that point. From there I went over the Volcano from the north side into the crater and down through Vilaflor back towards the resort.

Garmin Data 7th Decmeber

Ride Moving Time: 7 hours
Distance:103 miles
Climbing:13,300ft
TSS:300
Average Power/Normalized:203/238

Monday 8th December:

Given the big day before I decided to stick around the south face of the volcano and do a few of the climbs on offer there. There is a pretty nice cafe in Vilaflor to hang out at when not chewing bar tape.

Garmin Data 8th December

Ride Moving Time: 4hours 20mins
Distance: 60 miles
Climbing: 9,000ft
TSS: 200
Average Power/Normalized: 203/244

Tuesday 9th December:

I did the same ride as Sunday but in the opposite direction. Had a nice cross tailwind home from Gumer which made life a bit more pleasant.

Garmin Data 9th December

Ride Moving Time:7 hours
Distance:103
Climbing:13,200ft
TSS:280
Average Power/Normalized:186/229

Wednesday 10th December

Vilaflor hill repeats. I did the climb up to Vilaflor from Arona, Grandilla and San Miguel.

Garmin Data 10th December

Ride Moving Time: 4 hours
Distance: 60 miles
Climbing: 7,000ft
TSS:213.9
Average Power/Normalized:206/260

Thursday 11th December:

The Masca loop in my opinion is one of the hardest rides on the island. You can do a nice run along the coast as I did and then get to work on the first big climb of the day up to Santiago del Teide. The next climb the Erjos pass will drop you down into a totally other world. The Masca region and Buenavista are much greener and more lush than anywhere else that I have seen on the island. The climb starting from Buenavista back to Santiago through the Masca region is absolute savagery.

Garmin Data 11th December

Ride Moving Time: 6.5 hours
Distance: 100 miles
Climbing: 12,500ft
TSS: 336
Average Power/Normalized: 210/260

Friday 12th December:

With all my big island exploring rides done I wanted to do a few hill repeats and that around the south of the island. The climb from Vilaflor to the top was also high up on the list as I did a test on this last year so fancied seeing how I would fair against my time from last year.

Garmin Data 12th December

Ride Moving Time: 6 hours
Distance:85 miles
Climbing: 12,500ft
TSS: 260
Average Power/Normalized: 195/242

Saturday 13th December:
Training Over and Flight at 3pm, A nice easy coffee run along the coast was a good way to spin the legs out before the 4 hour flight.

Weekly Totals:
Total Moving Ride Time: 33 hours
Total TSS: 1650
Total Distance: 520 miles
Total Vertical Accent: 70, 000 ft