Sometimes it’s more about the adventure than the race (although the race was really good, too). Today was a day like that – from the long drive on beautiful country roads to the climb that I wanted to do on my warm-up taking a bit longer than expected leaving me less than 5 minutes to refill water bottles and shoot over to the line before the start. So, I’ve included some pictures and video from the drive up and the festivities surrounding the race.
About the race – Chris Brown (Litespeed-BMW) took the win solo lapping the field along the way, and I came out on the losing end of a photo finish sprint for 2nd place to a very strong 16 year old – Stephen Bassett (Texas Roadhouse). I missed Chris’s move and spent a few laps chasing just a couple seconds behind him but I couldn’t close the gap and nearly blew up in the process. I eventually sat up and waited for the field. In the end game, there were five of us left to sprint it out. I attacked hard going into the next to last turn and held it until the finish … well, exactly two inches before the finish.
I hit an all-time new record max HR of 199 in the final sprint … here is all the data:
McMinnville Crit power and heartrate data
Lap Avg Spd Avg Pow Avg HR Time 1 23.3mi/h 388W 162bpm 0:01:04 2 24.9mi/h 221W 173bpm 0:01:00 3 23.7mi/h 197W 168bpm 0:01:03 4 23.3mi/h 227W 166bpm 0:01:04 5 25.3mi/h 315W 168bpm 0:00:59 6 28.2mi/h 441W 185bpm 0:00:53 7 27.1mi/h 310W 191bpm 0:00:55 8 26.2mi/h 324W 189bpm 0:00:57 9 25.3mi/h 295W 188bpm 0:00:59 10 24.5mi/h 254W 182bpm 0:01:01 11 24.9mi/h 269W 180bpm 0:01:00 12 25.3mi/h 251W 179bpm 0:00:59 13 24.5mi/h 250W 178bpm 0:01:01 14 26.6mi/h 251W 178bpm 0:00:56 15 24.5mi/h 256W 178bpm 0:01:01 16 24.9mi/h 265W 180bpm 0:01:00 17 25.7mi/h 258W 182bpm 0:00:58 18 25.3mi/h 221W 181bpm 0:00:59 19 24.9mi/h 228W 179bpm 0:01:00 20 24.1mi/h 212W 177bpm 0:01:02 21 24.5mi/h 269W 176bpm 0:01:01 22 25.7mi/h 295W 181bpm 0:00:58 23 24.9mi/h 301W 182bpm 0:01:00 24 24.1mi/h 170W 183bpm 0:01:02 25 27.6mi/h 478W 188bpm 0:00:54 26 27.6mi/h 362W 194bpm 0:00:54 27 26.6mi/h 353W 195bpm 0:00:56 28 23.0mi/h 208W 190bpm 0:01:05 29 22.6mi/h 262W 178bpm 0:01:06 30 23.7mi/h 188W 173bpm 0:01:03 31 24.1mi/h 270W 171bpm 0:01:02 32 24.1mi/h 215W 174bpm 0:01:02 33 23.3mi/h 262W 173bpm 0:01:04 34 24.5mi/h 218W 175bpm 0:01:01 35 25.3mi/h 243W 178bpm 0:00:59 36 23.3mi/h 227W 177bpm 0:01:04 37 24.5mi/h 255W 177bpm 0:01:01 38 23.7mi/h 232W 180bpm 0:01:03 39 24.5mi/h 268W 182bpm 0:01:01 40 22.3mi/h 208W 180bpm 0:01:07 41 21.9mi/h 213W 176bpm 0:01:08 42 24.5mi/h 320W 176bpm 0:01:01 43 26.2mi/h 321W 188bpm 0:00:57 44 24.9mi/h 295W 192bpm 0:01:00 45 24.1mi/h 273W 188bpm 0:01:02 46 21.3mi/h 211W 182bpm 0:01:10 47 22.6mi/h 229W 175bpm 0:01:06 48 24.1mi/h 262W 177bpm 0:01:02 49 24.1mi/h 251W 181bpm 0:01:02 50 23.3mi/h 251W 178bpm 0:01:04 51 24.1mi/h 227W 177bpm 0:01:02 52 23.7mi/h 229W 179bpm 0:01:03 53 23.0mi/h 216W 177bpm 0:01:05 54 24.1mi/h 293W 177bpm 0:01:02 55 23.0mi/h 196W 183bpm 0:01:05 56 23.0mi/h 217W 175bpm 0:01:05 57 25.3mi/h 341W 180bpm 0:00:59 58 23.0mi/h 287W 188bpm 0:01:05 59 29.3mi/h 492W 193bpm 0:00:51
Here’s videos and pics from the drive-up.
Band playing as part of the festival:
Driving past the huntsville space and rocket center:
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