Rode Cleves on Tuesday at 22:13, one second off my best of the year. Had I know I would have pushed one second harder. Won my age and took second to an 18 year old. Rode the Blue Streak last night at 22:19 in a difficult wind. The first mile was at 24 mph avg, […]
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rode a 22:20, 27.5 mph. Feel ready for the 5k and 10k state tt’s next week in northern Ohio. Felt like today could have been faster but we were delayed by thunderstorms for 30 minutes after we warmed up. Pretty much hit it when the rained passed.
Used the uphill section of the crit course at Ault Park. Starting at the bottom of the hill these all took me to about halfway around the pavilion. I’d coast down and do the next. Power numbers were 496, 482, 485, 493, 489, 503, 488, 504, 507, 487, 480, 488, 500, 494 and 514. Average
Todays efforts on the same course were 383, 380, 381, 373, 372, 384 and 374. Tomorrow we have the 15×1’s. Should be fun.
answer to question from team members on how to compete in crits Good questions. I’ll offer some of my thoughts on this. I know training ideas are open to debate and this group email is great for these discussions. HR training zones can be a valuable training tool. When HR monitors first came out they
Did the first day of the 7×3’s using Heekin Avenue from Eastern to Ault Park. With a 10 minute warmup and 5 minute cool down I was on the bike about 50 minutes. Average power for the intervals was 398, 382, 377, 372, 378, 371 and 372 and normalized power for the entire ride was
Rode a 22:16 or about 27.6 mph for the 10.25 mile course. It was good for second best with the fastest time being 21:29 or 28.6 mph, the third fastest time in the 40 year history of the time trial. this moved me back to fourth all time. Oh well. Not sure at 51 that
Cleves June 4 2013 Read More »
After last weeks light training we’re back at it this week. On the schedule we have the time trial on Tuesday and then on Thursday and Friday 7×3 power intervals. On Friday we have 15×1 power intervals. Haven’t done these in a long time so curious to see where I am on the power. On