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Districts & Folsom race report |
| Though a week behind I thought I would drop a note in for the TT as I have had more time to let that one sink in. First off I have to say that I love the TT race style, why the hell else would anyone make a 6 hour round trip to race for less than an hour? Districts: 5/10 I'm ok with this position as it was my first time attempting this length of TT. Further more my speed magnet flew off in the first few miles, so I rode half blind. Time: 56:18 a good time, I think. My seat angle and my shorts were bugging me so I was in and out of the aero position, especially on the way back. OUCH! Overall I am happy with it, though I still agree with Keith. One grouping would be best, that way Andres could have won my category, and I could have won Cat 4/5. Congrats to all who rode it. Folsom Crit Though I am not a big fan of Crit I decided, why not? I'm sure my wounds will heal soon. Riders: Phong, Rodrigo, & Me Outcome: Phong=pack finish, Rodrigo=5th, Me=blood on the road The course suited a guy like me, wide open long stretches of nice road. Perfect for a beak away. I was all set to do just that, then reality set in. Nobody from other teams wanted to be in a break away, so when I took the lead in the 4th or 5th lap and created a gap without putting to much into it I thought yep this course will do just fine. I stayed out for about 2 more laps again, not too much effort. At this point I looked back, I see Phong and another guy making the bridge up to me. Phong had the steam, while the other guy got left in no mans land. Though the intent was to push the break, I did not have it in me to keep it up for another 30 minutes of racing, so I told Phong to ease up. We were swallowed up, but fresh so we both stayed in the front. The Prems came and went, with a near laxidazical effort by most in the group, other breaks were treated with the same indifference. I remained in the top 5 or 10 riders up until 5 laps to go. I took what ended up being a very long pull, only cause the group would not pull through unless forced. I needed a bit of a breather, and got in the draft at about mid pack. A few seconds there and I was making my way back to the front. On the horse shoe turn (quite nearly a straight away) someone up front attempted to break away, only to have his cleat let loose. Though I did not see it I was told that this one pedaled rider swerved drastically to his left causing a bad chain reation in to group. Ultimately someone went down in the middle of my path, and once the seas parted I could see the extent of downed riders, there was nowhere for me to go. Brakes on I ran into the bike that was splayed across the course, separated my shoulder as I was coming off the bike. Lucky for me the road jarred my shoulder right back into joint. Other than that I came out alright, the ride is fine too. Shoulder is very sore and movement is limited right now, I was planning on a down week anyway, so the timing is perfect. Thoughts: I should have stayed out, during the break and really tried to make it stick. Since that did not happen, I wish the guys who could have gone harder would have. Too many weavers, not enough racers. Dominick. __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar You are receiving Individual Emails Change Delivery Settings Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe We Made Changes Your Yahoo! Groups email is all new. Learn More Share Feedback Visit Your Group SPONSORED LINKS a.. Cycling sock b.. Cycling shorts c.. Cycling accessory d.. Cycling tour e.. Cycling clothing f.. Cycling .. __,_._,___ |
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Nevada City race report |
| Racers: Bob, Keith, Todd and I. Fans: Camy, Scott, Steve and Ed. Thank you for the cheers!!! Feed Zone: Cat and Jen+1/2 The race went off pretty hard. I got dropped form the front group around lap 8 or so. I got with some guys and kept the legs moving form some laps. With 30min. to go I think we got lapped by the winner. The front group with 6 guys came by after him and I got back there. They brought me back to some bigger group with 5+ laps to go. I managed to stay in front of that group for the lasts few laps. Last lap I tried to take off after the school. I did not have enough power to brake off loose. Some guys came around right before the descent. I kept the momentum and Got around them just at the beginning of the descent. I just went really really aero in the bike and span as hard as I could. I took the sprint and finished 8th in the race. Bob and Todd finished strong as well. Next will be Tour the Nez Andrés ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/qyprlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DeltaVelo/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DeltaVelo-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ |
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Burlingame Crit race report |
| Race 45/55/65 Field 60-70 Objectives Have fun Stay upright Maybe try moving to the front if possible earlier in the race, this did not occur. Start looking for opportunity with 9 laps to go to move up if possible to be in good position at the end of the race. This opportunity availed itself with 3 laps to go, I actually went to the lead, knowing this would not last but would allow me to get right back in on someones wheel, coming into last corner I was in top 10 of the peleton and just got up and went as hard as I could. 1st Place 55+ __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (5) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar You are receiving Individual Emails Change Delivery Settings Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe We Made Changes Your Yahoo! Groups email is all new. Learn More Share Feedback Recent Activity a.. 1New Members Visit Your Group SPONSORED LINKS a.. Cycling sock b.. Cycling accessory c.. Cycling tour d.. Cycling clothing e.. Cycling f.. Cycling trip .. __,_._,___ |
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Burlingame Crit (back in the saddle) race report |
| Elite 3's Avg spd (not quite sure, probably around 24ish) Field size: approx 80 Place: back of the pack Well, I haven't written one of these in a while. As a matter of fact this is the longest going without racing since 98. I usually end up doing at least 20-30 races per year but this year this is my first (to complete). As many of you know I had a bit of a crash in Feb and have now just got back to racing. First off I did a total cat 5 maybe 6 move and I should now consider a down grade for it....I forgot my shorts! I was very luck and had a pair of gym/running shorts in there that were black and weren't quite as bad but needless to say there was some heckling from within the pack and from corner 1 (some guy kept yelling to me to get some shorts!). Overall I felt pretty good, the speed was fast the corners really fast and the pack was about 80. The race went by pretty quickly and I being a bit gun shy stayed toward the rear but not really working hard at it. There was a crash mid way and that kind of freaked me out a bit, so I ended up giving up spots the whole day until I was riding tail end charlie most of the day. With about 10 laps to go, I thought what the hell...I can move up. I ended up moving up quite a bit but the the squeals of the brakes and the yelling kind of putting me back in my place (still kind of gun shy) and I ended up moving back at safe distance (the back again)...once again not enough to get dropped but enough to stay with everyone. I think I got the bugs worked out and I think I'm now ready to get in a mix it up a bit and I'm looking forward to the next races until cross season (since I've got to make up races I've missed all season). Got to make up for almost a whole lost season! Scott __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar You are receiving Individual Emails Change Delivery Settings Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe We Made Changes Your Yahoo! Groups email is all new. Learn More Share Feedback Recent Activity a.. 1New Members Visit Your Group SPONSORED LINKS a.. Cycling sock b.. Cycling accessory c.. Cycling tour d.. Cycling clothing e.. Cycling f.. Cycling trip .. __,_._,___ |
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p/1/2 burlingame crit race report |
| http://www.jamfoto.net/gallery/1601382/3/77755806 This photo sums up the race for us. Pacific State Bank / Anderson Homes cat. 1 team had Tim Granshaw, Bob Newman, Keith Szolusha racing. Bob launched an attack with a couple of others that was ridden right through by Eric Wohlberg, Andy Jacques-Maynes, and Devon Vigus until Devon was spit out. Tim tried to bridge with a Lombardi rider at one point and almost got there. Nothing could bring back Wohlberg and Andy JM. There were 103 riders and the small course was having trouble accomodating our bumper-to-bumper style and the squirrely newbies. After being warned about the uneven pavement on the left of the road past the start finish by the officials before the start, the riders still tried to dive there on almost every lap. The final lap was no exception and as the bell was ringing and the field was swarming the entire road to get up front before corner 1, a Los Gatos rider went down in about 20th position. This caused a lot of riders to experience road rash and general chaotic carnage. Bikes were snapping, helmets were knocking, and the ugly scraping sound was deafening with the silence of the big crowd gathered to see the finish. Bob went down without too much damage. I went into the crash and did a front endo off of somebodies bike or back, but I stuck the landing without crashing. Tim was sorted out of the pack and had to slowly move around the wreck as did many other riders, but we rolled around the lap to be in the official 'finish'. Bob crawled off the ground and thanked his lucky stars that everything was okay. more good pics of the crash and of our guys actually riding their bikes during the race along with the link above. the same guy took good photos at our race. next time. k __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar You are receiving Individual Emails Change Delivery Settings Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe We Made Changes Your Yahoo! Groups email is all new. Learn More Share Feedback Recent Activity a.. 1New Members Visit Your Group SPONSORED LINKS a.. Cycling sock b.. Cycling accessory c.. Cycling tour d.. Cycling clothing e.. Cycling f.. Cycling trip .. __,_._,___ |
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[DeltaVelo] CDA IM 2006 - Race Report |
| Couer D’Alene Ironman June 25, 2006 Albert Boyce 52:09 (swim) 4th in Age Group, 12th Overall, 5:08:15, 21.8 MPH (bike) 2nd in Age Group, 18th Overall, 3:20:18 , 7:38 pace (run), 1st in Age Group, 11th Overall 9:25:34 – Overall Time 1st of 352 in 40-44 Age Group 4th Overall (no male pros this year…female pros only) Swim splits: 25:27, 26:43 Transition: 2:55 Bike splits: 2:30:58 (56 miles) 152 HR 22.36 MPH 259 watts (normalized power) 2:37:17 (56 miles) 142 HR 21.36 MPH 231 watts (normalized power) +6:19 fade 147 HR total ride = 245 watts (normalized power) packet pickup weight – 178.5 pounds normalized cadence = 84 for first lap, 82 for second lap note: power was higher at 257 watts in 2005 for a time that was 3 minutes slower…means I am more aero, few pounds lighter now. Transition: 1:57 Run splits: 5:59 (.9 miles - start) 6:39/mile pace 47:26 (6.6 miles – out leg) 7:11/mile pace 50:04 (6.6 miles – return leg) 7:35/mile pace 53:19 (6.6 miles – out leg) 8:04/mile pace 43:32 (5.5 miles – return leg) 7:54/mile pace Race Themes - HOT! DRY HOT! - Time goals are dangerous and a distraction. - Went out too hard on the first loop of bike due to placing. - Went out too hard at start of run due to time goal. - Superior fitness can help you survive mistakes. Well, sitting at my desk with no bike ride or swim to rush off to, I’ll settle down and record my memories of the race before I forget all the details (both pleasant and unpleasant). Plenty of lessons learned that better be remembered for Kona in the fall. As always, this is a one-shot deal, written for friends, family, Delta Velo bike team & internet discussion board so skip the things that aren’t of interest. Thanks to all of you for your support, comments, ideas, tips, training camaraderie, etc. They are all much appreciated and very beneficial to me. Pre-Race A little more complicated than last year. School got out two weeks before the race so did a family vacation/business trip to Maui and Molokai. Took a road bike over with me and stumbled upon an Olympic distance triathlon (King’s Trail Triathlon) two days after we arrived so was able to do that race and follow it up with another hour of running as a workout. In hindsight it was a good thing I was able to get in that “quality” because the rest of the vacation was disjointed training at best. No bike on Molokai, doing runs at 9:30 PM after dinner was tough and swimming in the surf was downright dangerous sometimes. No worries though. I was in taper mode anyway and it really was the perfect time for a family vacation. Back home I was pretty jet lagged for the week before the race and overcooked myself on a Tuesday ride in the hills. Even though my ride effort was moderate it was close to 100 degrees and my HR was too high…that combined with jet lag and not sleeping well had all my “alarm bells” ringing to be careful. I had cooked myself on a ride to Hawi two years ago on the Thursday before Kona IM in similar fashion with severe consequences so I knew that I had to actively be careful. A few hard swim efforts on Wed and my times were good so I stayed positive. Flew up to CDA on Thursday afternoon, set up my bike, and went for a quick swim. Water was cold but felt good. Walked the expo a little, signed up for my first of two pre-race massages, ate and then got a mega-night’s sleep. Friday awoke with a phone call from Marianne that one of our sons, Evan, had broken his leg the night before! She was calm and in control and kept me the same but what a bummer! (Thankfully, he’s doing much better now.) The rest of the day was total rest after picking up race packet and getting a massage. Weighed 178.5 pounds at weigh-in versus 182 last year so that was a welcome bit of news and reward for having to work hard to keep my eating together on vacation. Carbo loaded/hydrated all day with Cytomax. Saturday was easy 15 min swim with a few efforts, 30 min bike easy with a few efforts and 15 min run easy with a few efforts followed by another lighter massage. Dropped off my bike to transition and dropped off transition bags. My brain always goes dead about this stage of the weekend so had to write out notes on what to put in each bag. (Last year in Kona I put my run nutrition in the wrong bag and forgot my transition bags when I dropped off my bike!) Then back to bed and carbo loading. Dinner at 5:30 was pasta, baked potato, bread and not much else. Had a hard time getting to sleep but that was normal and ok. Race Day Sunday AM…up at 4:30. Ate two “Baker’s” cookies from expo and drank about 700 calories of liquid nutrition so figure about 1300 calories total. Walked to transition at 5:30, put my bottles on the bike and nutrition in the correct bags and was ready to go with plenty of time to spare. Nursed a bottle of cytomax up to the swim start. Women pros were sent off with a 35 minute head start and this indirectly planted the first “seed” of time goal problems (mistake #1). Knowing there were no male pros one couldn’t help but think about trying to catch all the women in the course of the day. Thus, a time reference of 35 minutes was planted in my head. Was able to warm up in the water for about 15 minutes which was nice and relaxing. Lined up for the start front left and “boom” we were off. Swim After about 10 seconds of sprinting I had nice open water and hung on the side and feet of “Mr. Sleeveless Xterra” for the first loop. Swim was uneventful other than drilling a slow swimmer doing his first loop at the end of my second loop. Like hitting a log with a ski boat. Surprise! Swim split was only a few seconds faster than last year but my swimming has been much stronger this year and all my periodic “tests” have been better so I felt good about the swim. 20,000 yards a week with one day of at least 6,000 yards seem to be the magic numbers that help my swim. Will keep that program going. Bike A little spastic in transition. Scrambled for my bag and stuff in my shoes led to a slow time in the tent but raced out and raced my bike out of the corral. Clipped in, passed a guy who had some sort of problem with his bike and found myself in 2nd place overall riding thru town. Immediately “visions of sugarplums danced in my head” and the pacing strategy I had went out the window. (mistake #2). Proceeded to hammer thru town and then used the first long descent to coast and get my HR down. This is my usual strategy…if a downhill allows me to hit 30+ MPH then I just get aero and coast. Works for me. Nutrition was 6 bottles of Infinit at 300 calories per bottle, 1 flask of Infinit mixed thick that I never touched and two packets of Cliff Blocks in my jersey. I grabbed one banana slice from an aid station and drank a fair amount of water as well. Peed twice and didn’t feel totally dehydrated. Dehydrated, yes. Total nutrition was thus around 2,200 calories. My Infinit mix has around 600 mg. of sodium per bottle so I didn’t take any other electrolyte pills or supplements. The main challenge I have is forcing myself to eat anything. I had to argue with myself to reach around my back and grab the packets of Cliff Blocks. I’ll use a bento box in the future. I’m hoping that when solid food is right under my nose it will be easier to grab and eat periodically. Anyway, I enjoy this bike course. After returning thru town I started the hills and felt good climbing. I really enjoy my new Orbea Ordu. It fits great, climbs great and descends like a dream. I was more aero than in the past and is borne out by the data at the top of my report. I generated less watts than 2005 but had a faster split by 3 minutes. Good! There was nobody around me so I stayed excited and continued to go hard (mistake #3). A rider blew by me on the way back to town so I came thru town in 3rd or 4th with a split of around 2:30. Felt good about that. After grabbing some new bottles I proceeded on 2nd loop and it must have been an hour into the 2nd loop when I noticed that my power and HR had really dropped. Uh-oh. Around mile 90 my lower back started to ache also and I was losing more power staying in aerobars. A couple more guys went by me but they didn’t pull away so that gave me some hope but, man, going back up Poleline Rd. I was suffering. Need to do more core work. I did it last year before Kona and it really helped. Have blown it off this year…trading it for swimming and running more but I need to do it. Time to start the Coach KP core program again! Finally got to descend back into town and concentrated on getting my HR down…came off the bike with it in the 120’s and had a pretty quick transition. No cramping up climbing off the bike so that was a good sign. Run Started the run with my Desoto Arm Coolers (I was surprised that I didn’t see a single other racer using them), a bottle of warm Infinit and tried to run easy. We all know the story. With warmed up legs after riding for five hours “running easy” is always way too fast. Really felt like I was taking it easy though and HR was in the low 140’s. For first 5 or 6 miles I let it creep up to the low 150’s. (Mistake #4) Why? Because I had a time goal for the marathon and I was clicking out splits of around 6:45. After mile 5 those splits went to 7:15 and I gradually faded from there. It would be very interesting to see what splits I could have pulled later in the run if I had backed off 30 sec. per mile early in the run. Another complicating factor was I decided early on to actively stay cool and hydrate. I grabbed a rubber glove from my transition bag as I ran by and would fill it with ice on my hand at every aid station. This cost 5-10 seconds as I would stop and ask a volunteer to pour the ice into the glove. I was also taking time to pour water on my arm coolers to keep those suckers evaporating. The ice in the glove would completely melt before the next aid station so that was an indication of my high core temperature and the high ambient temperature. Oh yeah, I was also supposed to be drinking during this run. I had managed to get down about ½ of the bottle and chucked it. The only thing that was appetizing at all to me was water or coke so that was all I drank. I had two flasks of Infinit mix in my jersey to chase with water but I didn’t feel like using them. At a certain point, maybe two hours into the run I woke up and realized that I better get some electrolytes into me or I’d find myself in trouble eventually. I started using the flasks. Many speak of having their stomachs shut down and/or being bloated. I’ve never had this problem to date, I believe, because I never seem to get enough calories or fluids in on the ride or run. There is always a pit in my stomach. I didn’t feel like I was ever bonking though so must have had a few glycogen stores left or utilizing some calories from fat as my HR was now sub 140. Had Michael Gordon (2nd overall) blow by me at some point…great run for him!...passed a couple guys who had passed me strong on the bike and been reduced to walking on the second loop of the run and saw Eduard Korat looming behind me. He has run me down numerous times in races so he put the fear of God into me and was a motivator to try and keep things moving. The second loop was more complicated with many people on the course so lost track of others behind me. At the final turnaround to head for the finish I clearly had less energy than last year when I was really able to pick up the pace. Not so this year. I was able to keep cruising but my stride was getting shorter and shorter. I knew I was in 4th at this point and couldn’t see the person ahead of me so mentally I think I was starting to accept fate also. The final run-in to the finish is awesome with the crowd and the slight downhill. Looking at the finishing video makes me realize how slow and painful I was running. When I crossed the line the “catchers” were great. All I wanted was sugar and they accommodated with helping me to the food tent where I really wanted coke but my appetite didn’t want it as much. Kept pouring cold bottles of water over my head and muttering, “f@#&, that was hard” over and over to “Coach Bob”. After some pizza and a massage I walked into the lake for a few minutes, walked to the hotel and took a massive ice cube bath that had my legs shaking in no time. An hour of rest and Bob and I were off to drink some beers and dinner on main street while we watched the finishers roll in. The crowd was amazing. Biggest lesson learned? I have to ditch the time goals and let me fitness take me where it will. I had superior fitness to last year so it bailed me out of some of the above mistakes. The “arousal factor” is much higher in Kona so I really need to be mentally on top of things then. Thanks for reading and congrat’s to all who raced. Albert Boyce PO Box 871 Manteca, CA 95336 aboyce@inreach.com or albertboyce@sbcglobal.net 209-239-4014 (office) 209-479-2896 (mobil) |
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Cyote Creek Circuit race Elite 4's race report |
| Well, don't feel like telling the story but it will get around some how. Phong and I did Cyote Creek. It was actually a good race until 200 m fron the finish. I was in the front the whole time, on the last lap I crested in first trying to stay out of traffic on the descent, which I thought was smart. I then kept pace and let 4 guys in front on the back straight. we rotated through and I ended up at the front right before the 2nd to last corner. Didn't want to be there but I could feel the attacks coming so I picked it up into the corner. Good or bad it created a small gap that I really didn't want since that left me infront pushing came into the last corner and start of the climb. I knew they would jump soon so I relaxed a bit and then jumped onto the 2 guys who went on my left. there was also a line coming on the right. well at about 200 m the 2 lines met with a crash right in front of me. I did an endo over one guy who broke his collar bone and that was the end. The guys who took top 5 were behind and to the side. So, what could have been a great finish is still could have been, but I felt good climbing during the race so that is a positive. Phong may have more to add I think he saw the whole thing develop. Crash o matic 2000 __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar You are receiving Individual Emails Change Delivery Settings Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe New Message Search Find the message you want faster. Visit your group to try out the improved message search. Share feedback on the new changes to Groups Visit Your Group SPONSORED LINKS a.. Cycling sock b.. Cycling shorts c.. Cycling accessory d.. Cycling tour e.. Cycling clothing f.. Cycling .. __,_._,___ |
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[DeltaVelo] race reports |
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Sorry that I've been a bit invisible on the roads and on group rides but I've been immersed in a lot of volume training and that doesn't leave much in the way of free time.
Did two races on Sat and Sun last weekend to bank a lot of quality in two days. Pacific Grove Olympic on Saturday and Big Kahuna 1/2 Ironman in Santa Cruz on Sunday. Races went well. Managed to win overall on Saturday with a 2:04, recovered well the rest of Saturday, and won overall on Sunday with a 4:14. A nice double. All of you would have enjoyed the bike course on Sunday...from Santa Cruz up the coast for 28 miles of rollers and back...beautiful and fast. These races indicate the Korock-designed training is going well and just need to keep trying to improve form to Kona IM on 10/21.
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