I finally made it back to some high intensity racing/training Wednesday for the 2nd to last CU Short Track race series. The last two races I attempted were canceled due to rain so I was determined to race this week and talked the student organizers into letting me race the men's B and the men's A. Crazy I know but there was no way I was going home empty handed this week. I raced conservatively in the B race finishing up in 10th place. After a 25-min rest and a quick spin around the course again, I lined up at the back of the A race. I put in a strong effort but burned out on the last few laps failing to reach my one and only goal which was to avoid getting caught and lapped by Mike West, Bryan Alders, or Brady Kappius. Last time I succeeded, this time I didn't. In the end I pulled off 14th place.
In other news, I've been using
connect.garmin.com for over a year now as a way to store, manage, display, and track the metrics from my Garmin Edge 705. I ride with this device and a HRM almost religiously and it has been a great tool to compare training and racing but there were a lot of things missing from the Garmin website. Enter
Strava.com. I have had my eye on this site for a few months but I was initially turned off because you had to pay in order to upload more than 5 rides a month. Until now. They opened the site up and uncapped the upload limit so I uploaded some rides and took a closer look. Here are a few things I found that I love about it.
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| My Men's A race. Notice the 170w average power? I don't have a power tap! Strava calculates an estimated power output based on HR and other available data. Pretty cool. |
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| Ever wonder how you stack up against other riders on the same trail? Here you go! |
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| And if you want to watch yourself race the fastest guy on the course? |
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| Or up Boreas Pass on the Breckenridge 100? |
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