Yesterday was the last of the series of 3 training races Brian was doing. Of course, he was hoping for win #3, but it didn’t quite happen. Here’s his race report and links to some of the interesting HR and other data…<\/p>\n
\n\nYes that was definitely the hardest of all the races.
\nThere was lots of attacks early and I tried to go with them or bridge
\nand everything I did was marked by the field. That’s why I was happy
\nwhen Wes bridged up to the break. I knew Wes was climbing strong and
\nwould have a chance with whoever was up there. The orange team had a
\nrider in the break and yet they were keeping the pace pretty high on the
\n5th lap. I stayed near the front and marked Miro and Hurley who were
\nalso riding immediately behind the orange team. I could tell that the
\nrace was playing out similar to how last year’s 3rd race did so I knew
\nthat there was still a chance to catch the lead group on the climb.<\/p>\nWhen we started the climb, there was an immediate attack from several
\nriders I didn’t recognize. I knew that you had to pace yourself on this
\nclimb as I had learned from blowing up on it last year. So I let them go
\nand marked Miro who won the race last year. We quickly caught all the
\nattacking riders in the first switchback except for one rider from
\nMellow Mushroom who was putting some time into Miro and I. I was still
\nfeeling good enough to pick up the pace, so I came around Miro and
\ngradually pulled back the Mellow Mushroom rider. After the next
\nswitchback I had caught everyone in the break except for Will, Stuart,
\nand Wes — but I could see Stuart and Wes just up the road. I was
\nclosing fast on them, so I attacked as hard as I could thinking I had a
\npretty good chance to pass Stuart for second but fell short by about
\nhalf a bike length.<\/p>\nHere’s an interesting comparison between the climb last year and this
\nyear:
<\/font><\/p>\n1st graph — last year’s HR data for the climb showing the "blow-up"<\/font>
\npoint where my legs gave out and my HR followed.<\/font>
\n2nd graph — this year where I was able to increase my HR all the way to<\/font>
\nthe top<\/font>
\n3rd graph — HR for the entire race.<\/font>
\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nhttp:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/cycling\/hrdata\/hr-climb2007.gif<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/cycling\/hrdata\/hr-climb2008.gif<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/cycling\/hrdata\/hr-gsmr3-2008.gif<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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![http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/cycling\/hrdata\/hr-gsmr3-2008.gif<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\nJust for your entertainment, here’s a funny video clip<\/a> I took during the race. This was starting the 5th and final lap. We’ve decided I can either cheer or take pictures\/shoot video. But I don’t do well at trying to do both! Brian wasn’t in the front, and I struggled to find him in the pack. See if you can hear what his mom says in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday was the last of the series of 3 training races Brian was doing. Of course, he was hoping for win #3, but it didn’t quite happen. Here’s his race report and links to some of the interesting HR and other data… Yes that was definitely the hardest of all the races. There was lots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-8Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"..\/cycling\/hrdata\/hr-gsmr3-2008.gif\"){kind=link}