Archive for June, 2007

4 Device Ride

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Yesterday I hooked the kids to the trailer, and dragged it to and around Sugarhouse Park.
 
It is more of a data collecting experiment for me (as I am about to take the <gasp> SRM off the bike to test a crankset).
 

 
The ibike wasn’t calibrated to the trailer weight and costdown, but still did surpisingly [...]

Another Saltair.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

 
So either the position on the fixie sucks (doesn’t measure that different) or something is wonky.
 
Busted out a nice 290w for the last saltair and ran the fixie TT with a 54×15t.  But went slow.
 
Bogged down a bit and with some looking @ chainrings etc, I will take another go at it but swap the 54×15 [...]

A Ride with something to prove…

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

After the dismal stateTT… I took a beautiful sunday off the bike.
Yesterday, I rode chasing daylight (and probably would have had another half an hour if there weren’t any cloud).
 
Dunno why, but I was motivated and went pretty hard.  Not TT hard, but jumping every chance, riding hard uphills etc.
 
For example, Pave was only 228w, [...]

State TT recap…

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Well, again, my beliefs are confirmed.  That I hate that course and apparently, it hates me.
 
I am not one two cramp, but did it saturday.  About halfway outbound.
 
I held back on the starting climb, holding a little over 300w up it as in the past I have blown my whole race and been unable to [...]

Tomorrow is the big day…

Friday, June 1st, 2007

State TT.  One of my favorite races of the year.  And at the course that hates me the most…
 

Here is todays weather for pacing ideas…

 
So this info goes into my pacing strategy (along with  acutal measurements from the field when I get there).
 
But looks like my [...]