Ok... I am not going to lie... I tried as hard as i could and thats all i got... Buried in the prologue at nature valley... I pedaled as hard as i could... And that was it... Done...
Hey, if you tried as HARD as you could, what more can you ask of yourself? You win in the best cycling Blog category. Saul Raisin and Dave Z haven't updated their blogs in forEVer.
There was that killer head wind coming back in. We did all we could to get you there faster. The good news is that the crit in downtown will be hot. Stillwater even hotter.
The mpls bike messenger association supports you....
Erok, I wasn't there but I crunched some quick numbers and I think you're being a bit hard on yourself...
That course was 7kM. 7kM! That's 4-1/3 Miles! That's a TT only a sprinter could love and, no offense, but back in the day I used to cheat training by sitting on your back wheel 'cause I knew you were a Deisel engine. In 7kM you would just be hitting your stride. Hell, in just getting up to speed at the start you'd have covered 1/10 the course.
For what it's worth, your time was half my current best. You clocked in at about 26.8 Mph. I won't bore you with numbers (too late) but statistically that's pretty good if you assume 1/10 of that time was spent getting up to speed (which leaves you with a projected average speed around 30.5 Mph). Respectable indeed!
O.K, one more fun fact: Assuming a sprinter can get up to 30.5 Mph in 1/10 kM, that would shave 20% off of the time on the course (nearly a full two minutes).
Soory, slight goof of math... that last part should read 12% (1 minute). Anyway, the point is that short TT's are more about acceleration than fortitude.
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Not bad. What's with the dnf guys in a prologue?
Hey look on the bright side you would have been second in the womens race.
RVD
Hey, if you tried as HARD as you could, what more can you ask of yourself? You win in the best cycling Blog category. Saul Raisin and Dave Z haven't updated their blogs in forEVer.
I was too sick to start so I was listed as a DNF. Sux.
There was that killer head wind coming back in. We did all we could to get you there faster. The good news is that the crit in downtown will be hot. Stillwater even hotter.
The mpls bike messenger association supports you....
I like looking at the times of the guys who obviously missed their start...
Erok,
I wasn't there but I crunched some quick numbers and I think you're being a bit hard on yourself...
That course was 7kM. 7kM! That's 4-1/3 Miles! That's a TT only a sprinter could love and, no offense, but back in the day I used to cheat training by sitting on your back wheel 'cause I knew you were a Deisel engine. In 7kM you would just be hitting your stride. Hell, in just getting up to speed at the start you'd have covered 1/10 the course.
For what it's worth, your time was half my current best. You clocked in at about 26.8 Mph. I won't bore you with numbers (too late) but statistically that's pretty good if you assume 1/10 of that time was spent getting up to speed (which leaves you with a projected average speed around 30.5 Mph). Respectable indeed!
O.K, one more fun fact: Assuming a sprinter can get up to 30.5 Mph in 1/10 kM, that would shave 20% off of the time on the course (nearly a full two minutes).
Soory, slight goof of math... that last part should read 12% (1 minute). Anyway, the point is that short TT's are more about acceleration than fortitude.
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