National Senior Games
I’m home from the adventure called, “National Senior Games”. The Hard Case bike box worked great to take my bike on the plane and required only 30 min. to put it together upon arrival at our host house in San Francisco. My daughter and her GPS unit and the rental car worked wondrously well to get us to the registration site on the Stanford University Campus and to the race site on Canada Road in Redwood City, CA.
The Saris Power Tap was indispensable for the warm up and the races. I am not good at evaluating “Perceived Exertion” yet. My warm up for the 5K was:
20 min easy, endurance paced warm up spin in the small ring
10 min at tempo pace in the big ring building to LT in the final minute
3-5 min easy spin
5 min at LT pace
5 min easy
1 min at Vo2 pace with a high cadence
3-5 min easy
After the race, I felt I had really pushed myself. It was so dry and hot and I kept coughing. I should have found some cough drops or candy to suck on.
No matter how big and important the race, there can always be an electronic failure. They had my time down as 40+ min.!!! Three of us in a row, the gal ahead of me, me and the gal behind, all had skewed times. Diane, the gal ahead of me and myself spent 30 or 40 min. in a 120F trailer with the head guy trying to come up with an accurate time. He finally asked if we thought we had placed, and of course we said yes, and I said Diane was really fast and I was right behind her. Well, he finally came up with a guesstimate: 9:18. They gave Diane 6th and me 7th. When I got home and uploaded the power tap information, my trainer read the following information:
2.964 Miles
198 Watts Av.
157 HR Av.
88 RPM
20.5 MPH A.
And the kicker!!!!!!!!!! TIME 8:38:00 That time would have put me in 4th!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, I placed 7th in the 10K also, without any time clinches, so I am not complaining. I did give an especially hard effort on the 5K, and surely may have been 4th.
The Power Tap made all the difference in the world. I could not have done as well with out it. I don’t think I could have raced at all. What a fabulous tool the Power Tap is. I am recommending it to all I visit with. Numbers for the 10K off the PT:
6.32 Miles
186 Watts
151 HR
84 RPM
18.9 MPH
20.22 Time
OK, enough with the TT bike. I am off of the LeMond and on to my Trek Cyclcross bike later today. YEA!!!!
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