Today found us traveling to Grinnell for the next Roller Race in the series. 4 of us from the team headed that way to represent from HBA, myself, Vern, Chris, and Jason. We showed up just after 11 and got signed in, the nice thing is you can basically choose which rollers you want to ride on, and in what order you want to go. I decided to get in early and get it over with along with Vern, and Chris and Jason took some later runs.
Vern was up first, and he was doing a good job, up until the guy on the other rollers fell off, hit the bar and took out Vern, so both of them were off and needed to get the belts back on which cost them alot of time.
Next was my turn. Last time I did it in my big ring, and that seemed like if I needed to switch gears I was putting myself into some hurt, so I tried this week in my little ring, and wow that made a difference. Starting off I knew my legs were starting to feel a little week from all the intetsity training I have been doing the past couple weeks (looking forward to a rest week) and I thought maybe using the little ring I could drop my time to a 6:30. Started off pretty strong, but I quickly realized I couldn't keep that pace, so I just found a pace that worked for me. At the halfway point I was at about the same pace as last week, and knew I had to hold it if I could. I gave it one last push towards the end and came in with a 6:46, so a couple seconds off last weeks time. Still in the end was good enough for a 2nd Place finish in the Cat 4's.
Jason was up next and was hoping to put down an under 7 minute run, but come up a little shot of his goal. Chris went a couple after Jason, and was able to put in a run of 6:17, which was also just a couple seconds off his time last weekend. We had all notced that and commeneted on how ths week seemed so much harder and times were slower for just about everyone that raced. It was another good weekend for HBA, no pictures as the wife and kids didn't come, but they will be there for the next one.
Here is my power meter reading from today
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208 on your heart rate?! Damn man I'll bow down to that. I got up to 196 during a 5 minute Z5 interval this weekend and that was plenty for me. If you get down this way sometime, I'd love to put your bike on my trainer to compare watt readings just to see how far off mine is.
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