HuffNPuff wrote:
tmshokie wrote:
Friend wants me to do it with him. I'm in VA and this isn't in my training regiment but it looks interesting and I'm thinking about doing it. Have a few logistics questions for any past participants.
TIA
I've done it once. I was interested in repeating this year but it's the same day as the FL70.3. I live in Tampa. The year I did it my wife and I drove over to the other coast and spent the night there. I biked from the hotel to the start...then across the state. Counting the 2 miles from the hotel and a few miles losing the route in Kissimmee I ended up with 175 miles for the day. After about 10 miles of warming up, we formed into a main pack that was going 26-30mph for a good while. After hitting the first gas station in St Cloud, things starting splitting up as people eased into different paces and took breaks here and there. Some folks had sherpas with sling bags and some like me stopped at gas stations here and there. By the afternoon, I was sometimes alone, and sometimes with a small group, breaking apart and reforming depending on who wanted to stop where.
Tks. Good info.
Would you happen to have any wattage or PE estimates for your main pack effort and when you were solo (how fast were you riding and what were you putting out)? I've never ridden in a large group like that. My local group rides are only 6-8 riders and we do 22-25mph.
I'm trying to figure out the overall effort I'll need to sustain for pack riding and solo. I'm also trying to figure out how to train for this. Other than just crushing my taint by sitting on my trainer for 10+ hours, I just don't know how to plan for this. There are absolutely ZERO Google hits on a training plan. How much riding did you put in?
FWIW I'm a 47 yr old MOP racer. Most of the my local Tris I ride around 22 mph (mostly olys) at 185-200w avg. It's moderately hilly where I race. I can hold that for 30 or so miles and still run effectively. Longer races I'm more like 19-21 mph and 175-190w.
I'd like to do the CFR in 10ish hours. I'm guessing I'll be putting out around 110-125w in a large group holding 20 mph. Does that seem reasonable? Currently I'm trying to hold 150-160w at 19mph for 100-125 miles on my trainer. This is proving harder than I thought. I don't think I have the time to build up the strength/endurance to hold that for 170 miles.
Just wondering if that distance (125) and effort (150w) will give me enough in the tank to make the 170.