Looking at my garmin calendar, I did ride the day before states. so here's some data:
Time: 00:49:52
Distance: 14.71 mi
Speed: 17.7/35.6 mph
Cadence: 93/141 rpm
HR: 169/194 bpm
31.8.10
2010.37-39 Peak and Race weeks
Alright, so my adoring readers might have noticed a lack of posts lately. I've been away. I like to fine tune my form by not riding and instead gorging myself while on a cruise to alaska. I did ride the exercise bike on the ship 3 times. it was painful, but not in any good way. See the race report post for, well, my race report of state championships.
30.8.10
RACE: New York Track Cycling State Championships
Alright. Weather: warm to hot. not very windy to slightly windy. sunny. definitely sunny. Saturday: Managed to do the same as at opening weekend, which was spend so much time on my warmup gear (49x16) that I didn't warm up in my race gear (49x15) at all for the kilo. That's always a fun suprise trying to turn that over for the first time in the day.
Kilo: Started on the backstretch, which meant finishing on the homestretch. I felt like the start was good. I sat in turn 3 already, which i think might have been too early. Stood up again on the homestretch on the first lap to kick it up a little. had the usual trouble staying on the red line (what else is new?). I felt strong at the end, and ended up with second behind mike W, who i've been told has basically been training for that event and that event alone, so more power to him. he deserves it. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/46782968
Points: Don't really remember what happened anymore, maybe someone will post video. All i remember is Steve Marmo was really breaking my legs with the pace. He's a strong guy. He won it, I got second again. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/46782966
Win'n'out: not a state event, but still for the omnium. I tried to jump later than normal, and kept it up. first for me. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/46782961
Sunday: got to the track really early. rode in both gears, even put on the 50t chainring.
Flying 200's: wound up a little late, i think. took my own personal line, which is the opposite of everyone else's line. got 8th seed with a 13.454 or something. i didn't really care. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/46782958
1st sprint: 3-up against scott savory and andy da silva. andy tried to help me out, but i didn't even really try. scott just psyches me out way too much. he has more endurance, more sprint, and more experience/tactics, so how can i win? dumb luck. regardless, scott advanced. I also have to add in here that Karl showed up to race today. In his first sprint, he kilo'd to the win. and it was glorious.
1st sprint repechage: i think it was a 4 up with marmo being the main rival. i almost got it, but was half a bike behind marmo at the line. that ended my sprint.
Scratch: Karl and I couldn't figure out any tactics beforehand, so we decided to just wing it. it ended up being karl, steve and me rotating on the front (why did i feel the need to be there?) until i asked karl to push the pace at around 4 to go. at 2 to go i had the genius idea to try to jump off the front and try to suprise everyone. little did i know scott was right behind me. they all passed in turn 4 on the last lap, and i sat up to come in 6th out of 7. keep this in mind, as omnium points only go 5 deep. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/46782954
then there were more sprints.
then there was the team sprint. There was a small amount of drama regarding the teams, with harry and scott supposing to be on a team, then scott moving to a different team, siraaj not being sure if he'd race, me not being sure if i could make it friday, the whole race being moved to sunday, etc. eventually it was steve, mike mahesh, stephen smith on one team, siraaj, scott, anthony freeman on another, and karl, andy da silva and me on the third. scott's team went up against a cat 5 team, and we went up against steve. scott beat the cat 5's (suprise, suprise), and we beat steve, but we didn't know the times. in the end scott's team got first, we got second. the results just came out today, turns out we were only .05 off from them. i'm sorry, but that's bullshit, at least when they're timed with stopwatches. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/46782950
omnium: i was in the lead from the second race on, until the team sprint. scott savory ended up with the same number of points as me, and ended with the gold as he had more firsts. i got second again. that's 4 silvers for me, 4 golds for him. he certainly deserved it as he absolutely is the fastest cat 4, and i had more than ample chance to maintain my points. for the future, i'll try not to screw up so much.
5.8.10
RACE: Kissena Twilight Track Series 8/4
Well the forecast originally called for thunderstorms, but they cleared the radar in time to race. I took the train in this time, as karl was doing stuff that wasn't racing. I met a guy on the train going in that said his brother won the gold in rome in 1960 for the kilo. i assume he meant the olympics, but wikipedia does not agree. shrug. anyhow, got to jamaica, rode to the track in time. raced. here's a rundown:
Chapter 1: Unknown Tempo. Basically a tempo race at unknown distance. scott tried to break off the front at first, i bridged and tried to keep a two man break type deal. he gave up though, so i just kept off the front for the rest of the race. i just got lucky with the distance they decided on. another lap and i would have been toast. data:
Chapter 2: 4 lap scratch. somehow I managed to get myself at the front and then lead the entire scratch, until around turn 3 of the last lap. where i was promptly passed by just about everyone. siraaj was pretty firmly on my wheel, and despite my elbow flickingest, he stayed behind me. whatever. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/43208898
Chapter 3: Points race: almost took the first set of points, but siraaj pipped me at the line. nothing to write home about on the next two sprints. I think it was 5th and 5th for one point each. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/43208897
Thus ended the omnium. savory took lead, siraaj eked out 2nd, i sucked it up into 3rd.
Epilogue: A feature. Tailgunned until about 2 to go where I happened to have moved up the pack just as an attack went. I attacked, too. ended up passing attack the first, tried to hold it until the line, but prensky and savory passed me like i wasn't moving in turn 4 on the last lap. took 3rd though. at least i got that much. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/43208893
In conclusion: I raced. Didn't necessarily race tactically. word on the street is savory might do cat 4 track states. there goes my chances.
4.8.10
2010.36: 8/2-8/8 Build 2 Week such-and-such
Sunday: probably no riding. I don't really remember.
Saturday: recovery ride before work. it was fun. yup.
Time: 00:45:30
Distance: 12.12mi
Speed: 16.0/31.4mph
Cadence: 88/116 rpm
HR: 132/168bpm
Speed: 16.0/31.4mph
Cadence: 88/116 rpm
HR: 132/168bpm
Friday: ffffuuuuuudge. woke up early for the friday kreb ride. what a clusterfuck. It's been a while since I've done it, and I guess now that it's summer every lance wannabe thinks he can hang at the front. The pace was retarded, constantly surge and brake, surge and brake. And since the fucking idiots up front were too busy pretending they were hot shit, they didn't point out a few garbage cans that almost took me and a few others out. I ended up pushing the cans out of the way as I passed, which some lady bitched at me for after the ride. "You know, I didn't appreciate that". Well know what? I didn't appreciate almost fucking running into them, so you can fuck off. I ended up jumping off the front and taking a longer route for a bit just to cool off a bit. Any more time with those knuckleheads and we would have come to blows. In the end, my average dropped a half mph between getting to the ride and finishing it. That's just wrong.
Time: 02:23:34
Distance: 46.32 mi
Speed: 19.4/31.6 mph
Cadence: 97/129 rpm
HR: 163/196bpm
I rode again in the evening with some friends from work. One of them is just getting into cycling. It's awesome. Coincidentally, we rode to bellport again, where we got root beer floats and some fries. all in all, it was a blast. i tried the ol' superman descending technique on the way back. I can get into it, but I still don't know how to clip back in once i'm all horizontal like. fortunately for me, i just kind of rode into some dirt and fell over. graceful? no. effective? sure. good thing i think at this point they expect me to do something stupid at least once in a day.
Time: 02:16:08
Distance: 35.08mi
Speed: 15.5/33.5mph
Cadence: 87/138rpm
HR: 145/180bpm
HR: 145/180bpm
Thursday: took it easy. I don't want to get too strong, you know. Then I would just make everyone else feel bad about how much slower they are than me. yeah, that's it...
Wednesday: just raced at the track. no pre-race ride or anything. check the race report.
Tuesday: Rode the rollers after work. Painful, that's what it was. I don't know if I had the resistance higher than normal, or i'm just slower than normal, but it wasn't easy. 2x15min's.
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