The non-Ron weekend round-up
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:47 pm
As one of the few not out on CTC-related activities, I'll kick this off...
I was down at Harworth again for The Big One in the old blokes' racing calendar - the Tom Simpson Memorial RR on Sunday. This precedes an Under-23's race and the whole day is a big event - they got Team Katusha's Ben Swift doing the prize presentations. I was sole Cliftonite there although local lads Simon Wright and Colin Sinclair were out in the 40-49's race.
It was warm, sunny and with just a hint of breeze in our faces on the start/finish straight as the 50-59's rolled out for 53 miles or so. I clonked through the gears and up to tempo and found myself 100yds off the front; I rolled along for the first half-lap in case someone fancied joining me in an early breakaway but the answer was sadly "no" as the bunch reeled me in. A break of three went, but all bar one were gradually pulled back so I just stayed up near the front and watched out for dramas. To my great delight this was the second race of the season which didn't dissolve into cramps so I was still up front after the final corner onto the uphill drag to the finish. Sadly I chose to follow the wheels of a couple who led things out early but conked out halfway up the hill; I got boxed in and by the time I'd got out onto the wide open spaces of the wrong side of the road, I was sprinting for tenth. Still, good fun and my best stab yet at this event.
Stats, for the stat-hungry:-
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 784 204 watts
Heart Rate: 90 174 152 bpm
Cadence: 20 166 93 rpm
Speed: 5.1 37.5 23.5 mph
Duration: 2:12:04
Work: 1618 kJ
Normalised Power: 242W
I was down at Harworth again for The Big One in the old blokes' racing calendar - the Tom Simpson Memorial RR on Sunday. This precedes an Under-23's race and the whole day is a big event - they got Team Katusha's Ben Swift doing the prize presentations. I was sole Cliftonite there although local lads Simon Wright and Colin Sinclair were out in the 40-49's race.
It was warm, sunny and with just a hint of breeze in our faces on the start/finish straight as the 50-59's rolled out for 53 miles or so. I clonked through the gears and up to tempo and found myself 100yds off the front; I rolled along for the first half-lap in case someone fancied joining me in an early breakaway but the answer was sadly "no" as the bunch reeled me in. A break of three went, but all bar one were gradually pulled back so I just stayed up near the front and watched out for dramas. To my great delight this was the second race of the season which didn't dissolve into cramps so I was still up front after the final corner onto the uphill drag to the finish. Sadly I chose to follow the wheels of a couple who led things out early but conked out halfway up the hill; I got boxed in and by the time I'd got out onto the wide open spaces of the wrong side of the road, I was sprinting for tenth. Still, good fun and my best stab yet at this event.
Stats, for the stat-hungry:-
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 784 204 watts
Heart Rate: 90 174 152 bpm
Cadence: 20 166 93 rpm
Speed: 5.1 37.5 23.5 mph
Duration: 2:12:04
Work: 1618 kJ
Normalised Power: 242W