Tag: power
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Texas Tough USA Crits Finale Race Report
Zoomed in view of the start/finish stretch before the start of the Cat 2/3 race. Race report Raced and fought hard to a 30th place finish out of a strong field of about 100 starters. I got caught up in a crash near the middle of the group about 10 laps into the race ultimately…
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Dothan Cityfest Criterium Race Report
Oh so close to a late season podium… 4th place after 20+ laps in a 4-man break. Still, the Dothan Cityfest criterium was an awesome new race on the calendar this year in Dothan, AL. The Pro/1/2 race featured a $10,000 prize purse paid 25 places deep. My awesome teammates Stuart Lamp, Terry Duran, and…
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2010 Tour de La France and US 100K Race Reports
Quick summary I had a great three day weekend of racing and training this week in South Carolina and Georgia. Here’s the quick summary: Saturday – Tour de La France criterium – top notch field, fun course, 29th Sunday – Awesome training ride in Clemson on my old routes from college Monday – US 100K…
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Racing the Ohio Triple (Madeira Centennial Crit, Hyde Park Blast (USA Crits), Tour de Grandview)
Whew – what a hard weekend of racing … 120 miles of criterium racing in only 3 days. Today’s Tour de Grandview criterium was 42 miles long and had over 2000 ft of climbing cumulative for the race! It was by far the hardest race, not only because of the long hill on the course…
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Road America Tour of the Dairyland report
Not quite as large a field as the previous days, but still well over 75 riders lined up for Stage 5 of the Tour of America’s Dairlyland. This course is very similar to the Barber’s course that we race every year in Alabama, but maybe a couple miles longer. Check out the topocreator map below:…
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2010 Giro d’Grafton race report and heartrate data
Quick Summary 2nd on 1st $200 prime 3rd on $750 prime with 7 laps to go Narrowly avoided crash in final 100m to finish 14th. Heartrate and power data for the entire race Going for the $200 prime Struggling to move forward from towards the back of the pack Easier once I made it to…
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GSMR Camp Sumataunga Training Race #1
Beautiful spring weather for another great training race. The first race of the season is always nerve wracking to see how the fitness is progressing over the winter and to see how well the team is working together. I was happy with both for this race — my fitness seems on track, and everybody on…
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BBL 1/23/10 – Power / heartrate data
Attack Zone #1 – Camp Winnie – 3rd place Excellent BBL – lots of power and heartrate data in this blog! Read all about it…
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Double Oak Climbing
Beautiful weather today. I felt absolutely great on the bike and decided to push it hard on a familiar route that I did in the reverse direction to hit up some classic climbs in the Birmingham area. I’ve created a topocreator.com topographic map of the route annotated with the climbs labeled. My favorite part of…
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Topview Classic Harbin Road Race Report
Wow – you wouldn’t think that a field with 25 riders would generate such a hard race – but it did! Here’s how it went down. 7.7 mile course – 9 laps – On the 1st lap, Wes took a flyer with a pro from Canada and they start to put some good time into…