Racing Update / Data Junkies Post
29th August 2007
Well, lots has been happening in the racing scene since I last posted about my racing. It has been a long, long season and I only have 3 races left on my calendar, which I’ve included below:
Date Race Category Results 25-Feb GSMR Training Race A 2nd 4-Mar GSMR Training Race A 4th 10-Mar South Knoxville RR Pro/1/2 9th 11-Mar GSMR Training Race A 7th 17-Mar Lascassas Road Race Pro/1/2 2nd 17-Mar Lascassas Time Trial Pro/1/2 15th 24-Mar Tour de Tuscaloosa Pro/1/2/3 7th 25-Mar Tour de Tuscaloosa Pro/1/2/3 3rd 15-Apr Raccoon Mountain RR Pro/1/2 22nd 20-Apr Mississippi Gran Prix Stage Race (Crit) Pro/1/2 7th 21-Apr Mississippi Gran Prix Stage Race (RR) Pro/1/2 6th 21-Apr Mississippi Gran Prix Stage Race (TT) Pro/1/2 30th 22-Apr Mississippi Gran Prix Stage Race (CR) Pro/1/2 5th 22-Apr Mississippi Gran Prix Stage Race (GC) Pro/1/2 6th 28-Apr AThens Twilight Pro/1 Crit Pro/1 raced 29-Apr Roswell Pro/1 Crit Pro/1 29th 5-May Sunny King Pro/1 Crit Pro/1 raced 6-May Decatur Pro/1 Crit Pro/1 45th 25-May Edgar Soto Stage Race TT Pro/1/2/3 53rd 26-May Edgar Soto Stage Race Circuit Pro/1/2/3 17th 27-May Edgar Soto Stage Race Crit Pro/1/2/3 18th 28-May Edgar Soto Stage Race RR Pro/1/2/3 17th 28-May Edgar Soto Over All Pro/1/2/3 17th 2-Jun Union City TT Pro/1/2 22nd 2-Jun Union City Crit Pro/1/2 14th 3-Jun Union City Road Race Pro/1/2 33rd 3-Jun Union City Omnium Pro/1/2 19th 23-Jun Minnesota Iron and Metal Criterium 2/3 8th 24-Jun Kurt Kinetic Criterium 2/3 6th 11-Jul Masters 30+ National Championship RR 1/2/3 27th 27-Jul Gwinnett Center Criterium Pro/1/2 16th 28-Jul Competitor Southeast Road Race Pro/1/2 12th 4-Aug Allanti Cycling Classic RR Pro/1/2/3 5th 5-Aug Allanti Cycling Classic TT Pro/1/2/3 10th 5-Aug Allanti Cycling Classic Omnium Pro/1/2/3 7th 11-Aug Tour of Elk Grove Pro/Am Crit 1/2 30th 12-Aug Tour of Elk Grove Masters 30+ Crit 1/2/3 16th 25-Aug River Gorge Mountain Challenge Pro/1/2/3 11th 25-Aug BMW TT Pro/1/2/3 36th 26-Aug Chattanooga Downtown Crit Pro/1/2/3 7th 26-Aug River Gorge Omnium Pro/1/2/3 9th 8-Sep Pepper Crit Pro/1/2 TBD October 13-14 Downtown Greenville Classic Pro/1/2 TBD
My most recent races were this past weekend in Chattanooga. I have included my heart data for the road race and criterium below:
2007 River Gorge Road Race
A couple of important notes:
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The arrow labelled "blow-up point" indicates the spot at which I could no longer sustain the pace I had been setting on the climb. Also, this is the spot where Matt Winstead’s teammate, Nate Brown, attacked with 1km to go before the KOM. Note the sharp decline in my heart rate as my legs screamed "no more!"
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Compare my heart rate for the finishing climb where I decided ahead of time to ride at my own pace. Note that there is no sharp increase followed by a decrease indicative of a "blow-up". I was able to finish in 11th place after passing several people towards the end who had blown up.
Race statistics:
Data Value Unit
Duration 2:44:55
Sampling Rate 5 s
Energy Expenditure 1851 kcal
Number of Heart Beats 26400 beats
Recovery -89 beats
Minimum Heart Rate 95 bpm
Average Heart Rate 160 bpm
Maximum Heart Rate 188 bpm
Standard Deviation 16.9 bpm
Minimum Speed 9.3 mph
Average Speed 23.2 mph
Maximum Speed 35.6 mph
Distance 7.5 miles
Odometer 5581 miles
Minimum Altitude 835 ft
Average Altitude 1104 ft
Maximum Altitude 1910 ft
Ascent 4615 ft
Descent 3710 ft
Slopes 7
Grade % 2.6 %
VAM 1679 ft/h
2007 River Gorge Criterium
This crit was a flat and super-FAST race. Still, I felt great for the race and finished well in 7th place.
Race statistics:
Data Value Unit
Duration 1:01:30
Sampling Rate 5 s
Energy Expenditure 725 kcal
Number of Heart Beats 10161 beats
Recovery -94 beats
Minimum Heart Rate 96 bpm
Average Heart Rate 165 bpm
Maximum Heart Rate 190 bpm
Standard Deviation 8.8 bpm
Minimum Speed 14.3 mph
Average Speed 27.1 mph
Maximum Speed 37.5 mph
Distance 27.7 miles
Odometer 5628 miles
Minimum Altitude 905 ft
Average Altitude 926 ft
Maximum Altitude 945 ft
Ascent 40 ft
Descent 20 ft
VAM 39 ft/h
Here is one more race … probably one of the toughest I have done all year. This was the Allanti Classic Road Race where I ended up finishing 5th place after a disappointing sprint in the small breakaway I was in.
2007 Allanti Classic Road Race
This race was extremely hot (in the 90’s) and very humid! Cramping was a factor as only a small percentage of the people who started the race actually finished. I was riding very strong, although I missed the winning solo breakaway by Michael Olheiser (Memphis Motorwerks). I was in a small break with Matt Winstead (Juris) and Dirk Pohlmann (Krystal) and a few other riders. I could only manage 4th in our sprint for second place, giving me 5th place for the race. The actual race was closer to 91 miles even though my speedometer only reports 88.1. Also, we had a time trial later in the day and when you throw in warm-up and cool-down, this was my longest day of riding for the year (about 120 miles).
Here are the race statistics:
Data Value Unit
Duration 3:46:50
Sampling Rate 5 s
Energy Expenditure 2366 kcal
Number of Heart Beats 34945 beats
Recovery -72 beats
Minimum Heart Rate 102 bpm
Average Heart Rate 154 bpm
Maximum Heart Rate 185 bpm
Standard Deviation 11.9 bpm
Minimum Speed 6.2 mph
Average Speed 23.3 mph
Maximum Speed 50.4 mph
Distance 88.1 miles
Odometer 4896 miles
Minimum Altitude 805 ft
Average Altitude 958 ft
Maximum Altitude 1160 ft
Ascent 3650 ft
Descent 3695 ft
Slopes 10
VAM 965 ft/h
Finally, I have included some summary statistics for the past six months of racing. See the images below with detailed captions.
Weekly summary of riding for the past six months. Times are shown in hh:mm format. Heart rate zones are indicated below:
Zone 5 (Red): 171-190+ bpm
Zone 4 (Orange): 152-170 bpm
Zone 3 (Green): 133-151 bpm
Zone 2 (Blue): 115-132 bpm
Zone 1 (Gray): 0-114 bpm
Weekly amount of climbing (in feet) for the past six months.
Notice how many times I’ve scaled Mt. Everest on the bike with 289,928 total feet of climbing for the year!
Detailed view of my training for the past five weeks. Note the right-hand summary column
displays the amount of calories burned per week as well as the total number of miles ridden per week.
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