Also FWIW…I got in 28 hours before the gun went off. Worked well for me, but then again, I was just about keeping it slow and steady and finishing without puking or crashing.
10:44 last year. No power meter but i know my watts based on years of road riding with a PM. My effort was a bit less than IM, so about 180 watts plus or minus 15w i bet…just an estimate…I weigh 180
180 seems a bit high to me, especially since I weigh 20 more pounds and really hope I don’t have to hit that kind of number just to be barely sub-12. Damn damn damn.
Okay, I’m not really arguing with you as much as I am lamenting your report. My most recent training ride, with power:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/158205966
5.5 hours, 168W average, 72 miles, 4500 feet of elevation gain, basically at sea level. All on the mountain bike I plan to race at Leadville, all on basically gravel “trail” (no singletrack in this, but no pavement, either). The first hour was a tad slower than normal and a bit more “careful” because it was in the dark with a headlamp and I’ve never done that before. I’m also in an altitude tent at about 7k, and did feel like the first half of this ride was affected significantly by that (MUCH harder to breath while chewing my Honey Stinger waffles, for example, in that first half than the second).
That ride is both my longest “long ride” as well as my fastest by a few ticks.
–Donnie
249w for 7:13 is serious business at sea level. At that altitude for a 150lb-er it’s really impressive, especially with all the downhill involved, it’s bordering absurd! Very impressive. Wonder what the normalized power was.
Give us your game plan of how to win.
249w for 7:13 is serious business at sea level. At that altitude for a 150lb-er it’s really impressive, especially with all the downhill involved, it’s bordering absurd! Very impressive. Wonder what the normalized power was.
Give us your game plan of how to win.
Yeah, I guess I’m curious of his game plan, too, though it probably has little relevance to me, being that I’m 200 pounds and my FTP not two months ago was only 250W. No matter what his plan is, it would take me a few more years to even have a shot at it, and it’s likely genetically impossible since at ABSOLUTE BEST I could maybe make 180 pounds. And I’ll still be 6’2" tall with relatively broad shoulders, which means significant aero problems for a race this “fast”, too.
But by all means, share the plan. Should be fun to see how the big boys do it, anyway. Err, I mean the much-smaller-than-me-guys-with-much-higher-power-to-weight-ratios.
–Donnie
Yeah, keep in mind Paul was dipped in the river Styx when he was born.
Well, I’m in Leadville now. Got here yesterday after driving for two straight days from NC. No, I’m not taking the advice to move up in altitude more slowly, but it’s because there’s a Carmichael camp here on Sunday and Monday I wanted to do. Then I’ll just stay here and complete my training. I’ve got a few recent blog entries up, and will be blogging heavily as we go. Check it out here:
–Donnie
Alright, new blog update, and this one is a little more relevant since there is ride data from the course. It was part of the CTS camp, and as such there are a lot of stops in there that won’t happen during the race (for coaching points, gathering groups back up, etc), so I still don’t quite know what to make of the data exactly, but it’s a good starting point.
http://www.carefreeway.com/2012/07/all-leadville-all-time.html
I wasn’t completely acclimated yet, but wasn’t too far off, either. I think come race day I’ll be able to perform similarly to these numbers, minus all the stops, for the entire race. I definitely didn’t blow it all out on these rides, though they weren’t easy, that’s for sure.
–Donnie