wktmeow

PMed, @Ygduf

And @TMonk, You're good man, I totally hear ya and was of a similar mindset originally but had a chance to chat with coach and reflect on it a bit.

Ttoc6

I found Sasha's Strava.. And yeah, I'd agree. I may not know the guy, but it was definitely not good sportsmanship or positive outlook lol.

Just realized another huge benefit of having a 3d printer. Number holder I've got my or may not work. So I'll just print another one!

Also got my tt bike fixed.. The day before I leave lol. Typical for my race weekends. Panic to get it all together at the last minute.

mattm

Nice! Post it on Thingiverse?

Doge

TT Start List
https://wmrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2...TStartList.pdf

rideaz

The weather was so nice this past month but winter came back this week just in time for all the out of town racers, sorry :-(

Ttoc6

When I get home ill post some pictures of what I've got. It's for fizik saddles and unfortunately won't work for this race since the numbers are soft paper

Ttoc6

Driving from UT was a bit rough last night, but it seems like it should be nice the rest of the weekend!

Doge

Have fun. Many of those kids are new to me too now. The director is holding some back (they are not there) for later races, so its getting to be like a real pro team.

I'd be curious to see how the LUX women do and how the 15 year old does vs the pro women (maybe a win). Again (as in 2017 and I think there was 1 in 2016), no women in the 17-18 women category at all. Any that age are doing the Women's category's. I think that W17-18 category needs to be scrapped. Seems sexist to do so so they keep it there - empty, or worse with 1-2 riders in it.

mattm

Still a bit warmer than Norcal so I’ll take it!

Doge

Strava results trickling in. 255 uploads today.
https://www.strava.com/segments/3438723?filter=overall

This was interesting. Is he on a MTB, or Stages PM - Mike Santillanes Feb 16, 2018 26.6mi/h 187bpm 577W for 30 min.

Doge

Nobody can post from their mobile?

wktmeow

Not sure if you're looking for anything specific but Inno went 1st and Lockwood went 2nd, and I'm in the leaders jersey in the cat 3s tomorrow

Doge

Congrats!
I hear the wind changed a lot from morning to afternoon.

wktmeow

It sounds like it. Was a slow day for our field I believe, the first half was pretty rough, but I didn't see under 30 mph the whole way back.

Ttoc6

I was standing right next to you when results got posted.. Just wasn't sure if it was you... Good luck tomorrow. You've got a good squad of people around you, it seems.

Course was FLYING on the way back. I ended up having to dial it back a bit on the way out cause I was redlining at about mile 3, but held the speed. Was just trying to punch every small roller and it wasn't going to be good if I tried to hold that. Passed 5 people I think on the way out. I'm 8th on GC and 1.5 min back. Should be fun tomorrow.

Not a bad first go at a "real" time trial with gear and good competition. Need to work on my TT position real bad.

mattm

Congrats!!

My TT was.. much longer than yours, I’m guessing. No TT bike + no TT legs = I got passed. A lot.

Sadly, I went hard and paced ok. Just crossing my fingers I wasn’t last lol.

Ttoc6

https://wmrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2...STTRESULTS.pdf
@Doge

hack

No IAB for Jrs. Several hit with penalties based on the communique.

Doge

2 days warning. USAC now tells Juniors how to ride. Euro selection, not allowed to ride like Euros.
And of course hard to enforce.

I have no hope.

Doge

Think about this. Like 2 days before a RR the communique says out-of-the-saddle riding is not allowed.

Ttoc6

Did some real quick analysis based on results this year vs last year in a few cats.. (lots of free time on stage race weekends..). It looks like conditions got faster as the day went on.
@wktmeow do you have a picture of your tt position? Based on the data on your strava and standing next to you, you went a lot faster than me on nearly the same watts. We're about the same size too. You muse be pretty slippery!

Doge

Something I see a lot of, with me having lots of free time and not racing. There is a guy out there yesterday that did 577W and 26mph for 30min - according to Strava. Of course, I don't believe that was what was really done, but that illustrates how hard it is going to be to chase this one down. Esp looking at pictures etc.

aaronmcd

Warmer air.

wktmeow

The wind died down a bit too.

Ttoc yea I have a pretty good position and tried to minimize my rolling resistance. No side photos atm but maybe someone took some in our race. I was mostly just staring at the patch of road 6 ft in front of me so I didn't notice if we had photographers out there haha.

I was honestly surprised I got it, felt like I had bad legs and power was like 20w below target but it looks like I just went really fast on the way back.

Ttoc6

What a day. Stage 2 RR, 78 miles. Had my eyes targetting a particular rider wanting to handle him in someway. Countered his attack on the first lap up the hill and ended up in a break of 3, bridge to a 4th, drop him and then pick up 3 more including the triathlete I was concerned about and one of @wktmeow 's teammates. When the tri guy came across I knew the break was going to be hell. He was surgy and I knew that the gc teams would pull it back, not wanting to let a threat dangle like that. But I thought there might have been a chance. Rode hard in the break and got caught with 1 lap + the hill to go. So all in all, just about 2h ours of riding in a reduced group dealing with surges and winds.

Sat in and staved off some cramps (got my nutrition dead on for not having access to a proper feed). End of race break went with a friend from back home in Seattle in it. And I honestly expected that to come back too, but it didn't. Gave a suicide attack with 2k to go but didn't even have the legs to get a gap. Lost time on GC as the (very) reduced group passed but idgaf. I put it on the line to try to make up some gc time and it didn't work. And I still beat the triathlete at the line.

Happy with performance, wish the result could have been better. Doing great for it being february. Now to eat all the calories!