Newbz'z summer mentor group is FULL!!!! (Page 58)

newbz - 2010-06-04 7:57 PM if you want hte best, WKO is it. that said, i think poweragent is the PT version (i had an SRM so have not used PT software). I thin kthat is free (check their website for download). there may be a few more out there made by independent places as well (post on slowtwitch.com and you'll have more than enough answers on other software quickly). All that said, i just used what came with the SRM, very similar to power agent or whatever PT uses now. gave you the numbers, showed the graph, but left all of the annalyzing up to you. I probably only downloaded about 1 out of every 15 rides or so though. Tests and some longer hard rides were about it. Once i knew the numbers i needed to hit, or chase after, i didn't spend a ton of time pouring over files. If i went too hard, or something went wrong, i tpyically knew where in the ride it was.

Thomasski - 2010-06-04 8:59 PM Carl, awesome job on that brick. I probably would have of grabbed  a beer after the ride instead of a 3 mile run.. but thats just me.

Anyway onto TT questions, I havent been putting on too much volume lately since my TT is only 30 km so I have been training at about 25-30 miles. Long for now being 35 miles. I take it trying for the negative split would work out well for this course. It is supposed to be flat and fast. I guess give it 85-90% for the first half and then 100% for the rest? I have never been a strategy kind of guy. I just go with how I am feeling. But to me a Time trial is completely different than anything I have ever done before. Thanks in advance for any advice yall have to give.

tri808 - 2010-06-06 1:54 PM you know what's crazy about having training data from your garmin...then downloading it to trainingpeaks WKO.

You can view your second by second progress as far as speed, power, distance, cadence, etc

When I crashed...I went from 24.9 mph to 0 mph in 4.7 feet.

nc452010 - 2010-06-06 6:14 PM

OK....I joined the ranks, yesterday.  No idea on the splits, but I did the 300yd/12mi./5K in 1:15:39.  I was really pleased with how it ended up.....but I have nothing to compare it to.  First race of any kind.  It was really humid/hot.....but I'm thinking I wouldn't want to run it again next weekend for a better time.  I think I ran a pretty good race (for me).  The swim was a minor issue.  But, until I see my splits.....I'm not gonna get upset.  T1 was OK.....T2 was great.  Bike was 1.2mph faster than I hoped to do.....and the run is what I really wanna see.  I know I beat 30min (my goal).  I just don't know by how much.

Anyways....I'll post a full report when they post our splits.  Thanks for all the help and encouragement.

jeff

Congrats.  I'm sure it was a learning experience. 

dcon - 2010-06-06 8:50 AM

tri808 - 2010-06-05 7:50 PM I have officially popped my cherry.

I graduated from tipping over learning to clip in, to crashing my bike.

Luckily, by some miracle I'm okay.  I was hammering down a flat after coming down a hill and was on the wheel of 2 guys in front.  Somehow a 1 foot branch ended up on the sholder lying perpendicular to the way we were heading.  The first two guys avoided it, but I wasn't so lucky.  Didn't see it coming, lost control, the wheel eventually turned 90 degrees, and I went over the bars at about 25 mph.  My left hand, forearm, and tricip has some decent road rash, but I didn't hit my head, no broken bones, and my shoulder joint is completely fine. 

It all happened in slow motion, and I thought I was a complete gonner.  Luckily nobody was on my wheel, as most of the group was about 100 feet behind.  My bike is fine, as only the brakes got a few scratches.  The rest of the bike pretty much ended up tangled in my legs, so the frame doesn't even have a scratch.

Overall...I'm pretty darn lucky.  If I did that 100 times, I would say this result would be in the top 3.

Showering sucks...and you should have seen the faces I was making when I put peroxide on it...but I'll take it any day over a concussion, separated shoulder, or broken arm/ribs.

Ride safe out there!

nc452010 - 2010-06-06 12:14 AM

OK....I joined the ranks, yesterday.  No idea on the splits, but I did the 300yd/12mi./5K in 1:15:39.  I was really pleased with how it ended up.....but I have nothing to compare it to.  First race of any kind.  It was really humid/hot.....but I'm thinking I wouldn't want to run it again next weekend for a better time.  I think I ran a pretty good race (for me).  The swim was a minor issue.  But, until I see my splits.....I'm not gonna get upset.  T1 was OK.....T2 was great.  Bike was 1.2mph faster than I hoped to do.....and the run is what I really wanna see.  I know I beat 30min (my goal).  I just don't know by how much.

Anyways....I'll post a full report when they post our splits.  Thanks for all the help and encouragement.

jeff

newbz - 2010-06-07 7:25 AM niuce job on both the race and surviving the crash! I spent the weekend shooting and watching the philadelphia international cycling championship, lot of big pro tour teams were here racing 156 miles through philly. photos will be up tonight!