2012 Leadville heartrate data and wrap-up

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Hear is my heartrate data from this year’s Leadville race (read my race report).

Heartrate summary – note the lack of any time at all in Zone 5
2012 Leadville Heartrate data (click to enlarge)

A few things to note about the heartrate data … first, there is no time at all in Zone 5! I think this is mainly because of the altitude because my legs were fresh. Also, I think I may have been a bit intimidated by the length of the race – thinking that I needed to be really conservative. Next year (hopefully), I’ll have at least a few minutes in Zone 5, and spend a lot more time in Zone 4 and less in Zone 3. I know I can crack the top 25 in this race!!!

Here is the annotated map showing where we made a wrong turn that ended up costing me an extra 1.9 miles (exactly) and 5’32”. Note that would have made my time 7hrs, 30minutes, and a couple seconds – which surely would have bumped me up a couple places. Note that the 1st and 2nd place female riders would have still probably beaten me. Sally Bigham was in my group that missed the turn whereas eventual winner Rebecca Rusch was farther back and did not miss the turn. No arrogance or offense intended, but wow those women are world class fast!

Leadville Trail 100 MTB Race – google map terrain view annotated

And here is our annotated road trip data:

  • Day 1 Wed – Hoover, AL to Wichita Falls, TX (795 miles)
    plus 43.9 mile ride in Hoover, AL
  • Day 2 Thu – Wichita Falls, TX to Salida, CO (593 miles)
    plus 30.0 mile ride from Raton, NM to Trinidad, CO
  • Day 3 Fri – Salida, CO to Leadville, CO to Silverthorne, CO (117 miles)
    plus 32.0 mile pre-ride of Leadville race course
  • Day 4 Sat – Silverthorne, CO to Leadville, CO to Silverthorne, CO (89 miles)
    plus 107.7 mile race
  • Day 5 Sun – Silverthorne, CO to Leadville, CO to Hoover, AL (1486 miles)
    plus 7.8 mile recovery ride on Leadville Mineral Trail
  • Day 6 Mon – Arrive back in Hoover around noon after driving all night

Grand total: over 3100 miles of driving!

Road trip map annotated for our drive to/from Leadville (click to enlarge)
24 hours of driving took us from Leadville all the way home to Hoover – almost 1500 miles in one day! (click to enlarge)

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2 responses to “2012 Leadville heartrate data and wrap-up”

  1. Christian Elbaek Avatar
    Christian Elbaek

    Hi Brian,

    What is the name of the program you’re using?

    /Christian

    1. kartoone Avatar
      kartoone

      I use Polar Protrainer 5 to display my heartrate graphs. It comes with Polar heartrate monitors, but there is a free version called Polar Precision Performance that has some of the same functionality. Both can be downloaded here: http://www.polar.fi/en/support/downloads … I don’t use a Polar HRM any more so I wrote a converter to convert my .TCX files to the .HRM format that Polar expects here: http://www.topocreator.com/polar.php

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