Church Creek Time Trial #1
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Comments: The Plan was to go easy the first 5 miles and then increase intensity through to the end. At the start my HR was a little high but I settled in to high zone 3 pretty quickly (no power meter). The first 5 miles were into a pretty strong headwind so I had trouble maintaining even 20 mph. Once we hit mile 5 I upped the effort a little without much success given the wind intensity, which started to swirl a little. 10 miles in I felt pretty good but a little mentally beaten down by that wind, but my average speed starts increasing...still hoping for 1:07ish. Miles 10-15 were great...nice tailwind or at worst rear-quartering wind, felt great, HR climbing through zone 4. I passed a couple of similarly-outfitted guys and got blown away by some really nice rides. Those aero profiles would really help in this wind. Miles 15-20 should have still been a tailwind but clearly the wind had shifted and I started to struggle to hold 24 mph, HR spiking and I'm getting frustrated by this damn wind. Suck it up buttercup. The last 5 miles were hell. My legs were cooked and I couldn't hold power in the aero position, but when I went to the hoods I was like a big sail in the wind. There was one point I looked at my Garmin where I was in Z5 for my HR and doing 16.5 mph being bounced all over the place. I recovered a bit the final mile and finished just over 1:10. For reference I did a similar course last year during an OLY in 1:12. What would you do differently?: Race strategy was executed perfectly, just the wind and my mental handling of it did me in. Oh, and it wouldn't hurt to train a bit more and lose 10 pounds. And get a TT bike. :-) Post race
Warm down: Reverse of WU, rode back to the parking lot and then drove home. What limited your ability to perform faster: 1) Did I mention the wind? 2) Lose weight 3) Develop a better power/aero ratio, and be able to hold that position longer Last updated: 2015-05-27 12:00 AM
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Age Group = Cat 5 Men's
Age Group Rank = 26/29
This is my first adventure into cycling-only races. I got my USAC license a few weeks ago and trained for this using Trainer Road's sustained power training plan plus some outdoor rides. I was a little behind where I wanted to be but felt that I could put together about a 1:07 or so given my cycling splits in triathlons and being able to hammer to the end rather than having a pesky run at the end.
I didn't start until 10:45 so we drove down to Cambridge that morning and set up shop.
Riding my Fuji roadie with clip-ons, 12/23 cassette.
The parking for the race was about 5-6 miles away which made for a good warmup, about 20-22 minutes of increasing intensity up to theshold for about 3 minutes, and then a couple of sprints. Stretched a little and got razzed by the RD for my number flapping too much.