Euskatel-Euskadi Team Thread (Page 3)

I've updated the spreadsheet that with everyone's goals plus Orbea's.

Here's what I have - let me know if any are wrong:

ChicagoMan65 - 12

Gaiaserver - 21!

GTAUSP3 - 12

Jldcarlo - 10

Lil Turtle - 10

OrbeaMan - 11 

PanicTour - 10

Willie05 - 12

That's a total of 98 rides for us.

Each Monday (or Sunday night) post in this thread the number of rides you did during the week plus the total time for the week.  For the fun of it, we're also counting the types or rides, so also post the number of rides that are: 1) Flat or Rolling, 2) Mountain or Hill, or 3) Time Trial.

As far as what days make up the week, I'm going with Monday to Sunday to match my logs.  That also lines up with the Tour ending on Sunday, 7/29.  I just realized that means that this first week is a 9 day week!  That doesn't matter so much because the key is the total, not the interim results.

So by next Monday, post all your stats from Saturday, 07/07/07 to Sunday 7/15.

Good luck Euska(l)tel!

Good job, captain Bob/Willie05.

Are we penalized if we (as individuals) do not complete all stages, i.e TT, flats, mts, etc? I live on the gulf coast. Not many actual mountains in my part of the world. But, surprisingly, we do have some good rollers in the area.

Here is my first weeks data:

P:    July 7     time trial           0:30:00    (~8miles - trainer) 1 of 21 rides
1:    July 8     rolling hills        1:35:12    (21.38 miles)          2 of 21 rides

week total time/miles           2:05:12     (~29 miles)

challenge total time/miles     2:05:12              (~29 miles)    

Looking forward to #3 this afternoon after work.  Watched the TdF this morning, was nice to see some orange in the breakway. 

Jim

Absolutely no penalties.... its about making your workouts (stages) whatever they happen to be! 

Hey everyone.  Ride #2 is in the books for me.  42 minutes on the trainer tonight. 

Go E-E!!

Nice job PT! Hope you were watchin' the TdF while on the trainer...

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Got my Stage #2 ride in after work...rolling hills with not very much climbing. Had to laugh when I put the course in the Route Manager...it came up with an elevation gain for the 16 mile ride of over 17000 feet. Just the thought of that makes my legs and lungs hurt.

Hope everyone had a great day....Stage #3 tomorrow! Wonder who is going to be left to race after what happened today.

Go E²!

Later,

Jim

Lacey-

The other good thing is that the ride won't be a surprise.  Your body has a mental picture of what it takes and I bet it will be a better ride during the race.  If it wasn't for the downhills, I don't think anyone would ever go up.

Nice job on your 2nd ride.

Go E²!

Way to go!

Ride #2 last night. An hour of the trainer, watching the TdF. I scored some sprint points for the team during the breakaway too.  

Glad to see E-E orange represented well in yesterday's stage. Good effort by Ruben Perez.

Got my bike back last night!  YAY!!

Did my 2nd ride this morning for 45 mins as the front end of a bike/run brick.  First time I've ridden before work, but it felt great!

One thing I've noticed on the spreadsheet.  If you do more rides than your goal, that does help the team.  For the total team % Goal Achieved, it simply adds up all the rides and compares that to our 92 committed rides.  So if somebody goes over, that would make up for somebody not hitting their goal.

(Unless Cat changes it after reading this!)

Thats why Cat is collecting all the spreadsheets Im sure everyone is honest right? .... RIGHT???????????????? :P 

LOL!

I was just looking at the sum of the team - If I go over by 2 rides, and somebody else is under by 2 rides, the total for the team would show 100%

Just so you all can see - that's where we stand so far based on everyone's posts through this one.(I didn't enter any times.)

Everyone's doing good - but Jen hasn't posted anything in her logs for a while now.   Where are you??  Your team and all your friends who are posting inspires want to know!!

hehe I know what the spreadsheet does it was WAY to late to fix it the night I posted all the teams....

Euskaltel rider in the break on the road today! 

Hope everyone is doing okay!  Finished my 5th ride today....got a pleasant surprise of a request to go biking with my daughters instead of a training ride.  How can I refuse...I couldn't.  We went out for a little over an hour and covered about 7 miles.  Nothing but fun and actually it probably was the best thing for my legs....been feeling a bit heavy the past few days.

Go E² !

I got number 3 in today.  I think I should've set a bit harder goal for myself!  I just didn't want to go too high though as I wanted to have the option of some extra rest time after my tri sunday.  Anyway....not a good ride at all today.  I think my confidence just sucks right now after my dismal ride of the tri course on moday.  Mentally I just couldn't focus and it felt like a battle the whole time just to get my legs to move at all.

Gaia your ride sounds great!  How come your logs are hidden from us?

Hmmph - I think I saw one of your boys holding onto the team car window last night too!

3 / 12, had to resort to trainer-only ride for the day. Had planned to do a ride last night but was rained stormed out.

How are we doing overall?