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Race#7 – Imperial Winter Series – Hillingdon – Sat 3Jan2009
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Body: First race of the New Year, bitterly cold again, and a less than glorious result. I should not have expected so much, I’ve hardly ridden at all over the last two weeks, and I’ve eaten too much, and drunk too much (still, it was Christmas afterall). I finished in the E123 bunch again, but way back in 45th place outright, 28th in my Cat3 category. Compared to last week, the data says: - less power output (225w vs. 245w) - less effort (80% vs 87%) - much faster! (41.4kmh vs 38.5kmh) (if this trend of less power, less effort, but more speed continues, soon I’ll be able coast through the whole race!) Again my pre-race brain had planned to rest for the first hour, and save some energy for the final sprint, but my oxygen-starved–in-race brain chased down a break, with the inevitable result that my legs gave out in the final straight (again). Aggh, when will I learn, and when will I be stronger? My bike however is absolutely flawless, rolling like a slick thing, and gear changing with perfection, thanks must go out to my most excellent mechanic (me). I intend to train hard Mon/Tues/Wed next week, and then see what happens next week. I rode to and from the race circuit today, which is a neat way of adding 2.5 hours of riding to my week, although I’ll admit the ride home after the race is tough (think of it as running on empty at around zero degrees). We had a Plowman Craven professional racing (or perhaps just out for laugh I think) today – it might have been Tony Gibb – although his name doesn’t appear in the results. I managed to stay out of the photographer’s eye all day, so no pics :( R. 3Jan2008 (204 watts):
Duration: 1:12:53
Work: 890 kJ
TSS: 78.7 (intensity factor 0.805)
Norm Power: 225
VI: 1.11
Pw:HR: 5.26%
Pa:HR: 4.32%
Distance: 50.331 km
Elevation Gain: 234 m
Elevation Loss: 235 m
Grade: -0.0 % (-1 m)
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 776 204 watts
Heart Rate: 110 189 169 bpm
Cadence: 29 124 92 rpm
Speed: 0 53.2 41.4 kph
Pace 1:08 0:00 1:27 min/km
Altitude: 42 51 47 m
Crank Torque: 0 101.8 20.9 N-m
Published: 03/01/2009 20:12
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Race#5 - Imperial Winter Series – Hillingdon Sat 27Dec2008
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Body: I didn’t plan to race this race, I thought I’d be happily curled up in front of some post-Christmas telly. But, given the chance to race again, I couldn’t really say no (seeing as how it’s the one I do for ‘me’). I finished in the E123 bunch, a small victory I know, but this is a herculean improvement over the first E123 I attempted in Feb2008 – the one where my family watched me get lapped several times, and then pull out before the finish :( -- NOTE: I now know never to ever ever pull out before the finish, because those are the laps you need to complete in order to get stronger. I was 27th outright, 13th out of the Cat3’s. I think there are points for me in the not-too-far-distant future. I spent the opening hour (the race format is one hour plus 5 laps) trying the shelter out of the wind as much as possible, and conserve some energy for the finish. Somewhat inevitably things didn’t quite go to plan, and I ended up bridging gaps myself when I should really have let others do the work for me. This meant when I stood up to sprint home on the final straight, the muscles in my legs didn’t feel strong, actually they turned into something I can only describe as “jelly mash”. Although I didn’t make up some places, I didn’t make up enough for glory. I included some summary data from today, and from the first E123 race I attempted. I thought there some interesting data points here: - today I push a lot less power (245 normalised watts vs 289 normalised watts). I’m not sure why this is, either my legs are less powerful than before (which would be very bad), or my carbon wheels and other speedy bits are working like a dream, or I much better at sheltering in teh bunch than I used to be. Or maybe all three? - today I was riding well within my limits 87.4% vs 103%!), so I guess that means I’m fitter than before. - today I rode faster (38.5kmh vs 36.2kmh), so despite less power output, I’m riding faster. Weird huh? R. 27Dec2008 (217 watts):
Duration: 1:17:35
Work: 1009 kJ
TSS: 98.8 (intensity factor 0.874)
Norm Power: 245
VI: 1.13
Pw:HR: 10.77%
Pa:HR: 2.85%
Distance: 49.755 km
Elevation Gain: 302 m
Elevation Loss: 296 m
Grade: 0.0 % (6 m)
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 823 217 watts
Heart Rate: 118 189 169 bpm
Cadence: 29 116 89 rpm
Speed: 0 55.1 38.5 kph
Pace 1:05 0:00 1:34 min/km
Altitude: 34 51 43 m
Crank Torque: 0 100.7 23.2 N-m 16Feb2008 (268 watts):
Duration: 1:12:31
Work: 1166 kJ
TSS: 128.4 (intensity factor 1.031)
Norm Power: 289
VI: 1.08
Pw:HR: 3.61%
Pa:HR: 4.62%
Distance: 43.769 km
Elevation Gain: 311 m
Elevation Loss: 299 m
Grade: 0.0 % (12 m)
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 664 268 watts
Heart Rate: 136 193 167 bpm
Cadence: 31 129 92 rpm
Speed: 0 51.4 36.2 kph
Pace 1:10 0:00 1:39 min/km
Altitude: 16 28 21 m
Crank Torque: 0 80.5 28.2 N-m Finish line video: 
Published: 03/01/2009 19:47
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