Well, let me tell you: she’s the Queen of the Mountain on the segment Climb Carril de Boyeros a 100. And judging by the photo on her Strava profile, she’s probably about fifteen years younger than I am. But that really doesn’t matter.
— Come on, it does matter… don’t fool yourself!
— It doesn’t!
— All right, it doesn’t matter, fine. 😏
Side note: a grey hair fell onto my keyboard while I was analysing the maps and the stats my Non‑Premium Strava allows me to see. Seriously. I’m not joking, an actual grey hair fell out.
— Right… ¿pero va a seguir Juana con la palangana? (Back to the same old tune?)
— I already told you it doesn’t matter.
— All right, it doesn’t matter, fine. 😏
Do you see it there? It says QOM next to her name. And it says I’ve made 20 attempts on that little stretch. I only managed to get anywhere near Hunyaris on the 16th of November. Let me explain: that little hill is on my way home. And I’ve uploaded to Strava twenty rides that include that tiny, let’s say, “mountain‑like” effort segment. 🤣
Right. No more talking writing.
Tomorrow first thing I’m going to try to catch the QOM on that segment. 😋 Hands up, elderly ladies on bikes. We’ve got to put up a fight while we still can.
Wait… analysing the data again, with all my grey hairs back in place. 😁
Whaaaaat? 😱
Hunyaris climbed that hill at 33 km/h! Oh Universe, isn’t that a bit too fast? 🤣
Here it is! 0.30 km in distance. The women and their times… with my 52 seconds I don’t even show up… wait.
The idea is to sneak into at least the top ten. Miss Strava won’t let me see the second page of the leaderboard — how odd. 😅
Let’s see. That table gives us more data: we’ve got two athletes who managed to slip into the top spots of the leaderboard this year. Karla Llanes! Woooooo… Karlita! I know her. She’s the photographer who appears in this post. 😁 She also won a mileage challenge during the Citykleta Festival.
And she was the one who told me, back in those days, about how competitive the segments were. And she took a cool photo of me with a cat at Estudio 50.
Thanks to the fact that Karla mentioned it to me that day, during this Christmas of deep meditation — fully surrendered to the here and now, staring at my bedroom ceiling from six until midnight in the middle of a power cut that lasted more than ten hours — I’ve found a new motivation: to try to improve on the segments that already exist, or the ones I discover on Miss Strava’s maps. I don’t want to be Stravagant… 😂 I’m just a little old lady who feels younger and more vigorous every day, ready to look at this stormy reality so many Cubans are living through with fresh eyes. If this time last year I said that speed didn’t matter, that what mattered was being at peace with myself, well… now I want both. Speed and peace. And vigour… Because who knows — vigour is important to keep in view of the future.
And that’s how I’ll plan my routes, and whenever possible I’ll try to improve my time on one segment or another.
I’ve left you the comparison between the Queen of the Mountain’s effort and mine… No, better said the other way round. My effort compared with hers. She’s the queen, she’s a bullet, she’s an alien.
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