How to pace the Mallorca 226
Watts for every climb, split times and fuelling. With your numbers, no account and no email.
Good time: steady pace, with the effort where it actually pays off.
Mallorca 226
How to ride it on these numbers
This Mallorca 226 packs 3479 m of climbing into 230 km, but the route is not evenly hard. The first part through Platja de Muro and Pollença plus Coll de Femenia and Puig Major is long and steady, more about patience than force. The day really bites later: the chain of shorter climbs around Coll des Pi, Sa Gramola, Coll de n'Esteva, Galilea and finally Grau de Superna decides your time before the rolling run-in to Lloseta and the flat to the finish.
Go into Coll de Femenia already eating and drinking, at roughly 50-90 g of carbohydrate per hour, and lock into the pace the table gives you: about 80% of your 250 W, about 200 W, roughly 2.78 W/kg. On Puig Major keep close to 84%, letting groups go if they push you higher. From Coll d'en Bleda to Coll d'en Claret ride each climb near its listed percentage, saving any real push for Galilea and Grau de Superna.
The mistake that ruins this distance is riding like it were Mallorca 167: chasing fast wheels early and ignoring your targets. A clear warning sign is Sa Pedrissa feeling like a fight just to stay near 84% or 210 W. If that happens, back off on Coll d'en Claret and Coll des Pi, even if groups pass you, so you can still hit around 84% and 84% and turn Grau de Superna into a final effort, not a survival march.
Print at actual size (100%), no “fit to page”. Two copies come out: one spare or for a mate.