April 22, 2007
MS150 2007 Day 2- Distance 74.60 miles
- Time 04:17:52
- Max Speed 42.50 mph
- Average Speed 17.36 mph
- Elevation 2529.00 feet
- Heart Rate Max 136.00 bpm
- Heart Rate Average 166.00 bpm
- Average Pace 3:27 min/mile
- Average Cadence 71 rpm
- Resting Heart Rate 60.00 bpm
I rode the second day of the MS150. It was my first ride with my shiny new Garmin Edge 305, because after my last ride with the Polar, I was just too sick of it to withstand using it again. I had to jiggle it all the time to get it to stay in touch with the contacts, it lost over 10 miles of the ride, etc.
The Garmin is just a dream. Configurable displays, HRM + cadence + speed + GPS + altimeter. It's great.
One thing I noticed (and my low average cadence demonstrates) is that I coasted a lot. We left late (because we didn't know we were supposed to wake up early to get in line) so I spent a lot of time just coasting along waiting for oncoming cars to pass in their traffic lane so I could move left into that lane to pass the thousands of slower riders we were grouped with. Furthermore, the pace lines I cut in with weren't super tight, and fluctuated a lot in speed, so I'd pedal for a bit and then have to just let up or even brake not to hit the guy in front of me. Kent observes that -- assuming I were riding in a more hardcore group than I was -- stopping pedaling and coasting is actually quite annoying to those behind me.
Knee: I figured out what was causing the inflammation. I had my right heel turned into my bike a bit too much. Straightening it out so it pointed almost directly forward totally solved that problem. Still, I had some heat / friction around the quadriceps tendon towards the end, which I assume is just minor tendinitis from overuse. My knee is sore today, but nothing like last week, when I was limping around for days.
Okay, data updated with the info from the Garmin. Owning that thing just makes me excited to get out and ride even more. In particular, I was hoping it'd have basemap support on the unit, which it doesn't, but the GPS is still extremely handy since it'll plot the route out later on my PC and let me see how it corresponds to the elevation and whatnot. And I tend not to remember directions for group rides, I just follow along kind of blindly, so it'll be nice to have it saving off the routes for me.
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Way to go on completing the second day, Brian! I know that must have been a difficult decision to make, attempt both days and cause severe pain or be more sensible.
And kudos for figuring out your knee problem! Maybe you might consider switching to SpeedPlay pedals (the lolipops). They give you lots of float
I see too that you have joined the bike geek squad (an affectionate name a friend who does 600k brevets, has given me) with your new Edge! I think it's the greatest.
I believe that it's statistics for both HR and cadence are low, at least to what my Polar S720I gives me (since I still ride with both, the bike geek thing).
My user name on MotionBased.com is dagaus190, so you can see the profile for all the rides (including the Sea Otter).
I dunno, the heart rates it's giving me seem pretty reasonable. I was never just busting ass on this ride like I do when I train on steep hills. I could believe 170bpm as a max heart rate, but 166 is certainly not far off. 170-180 is the range where I am just crushing myself sprinting, and I didn't really do that on this, what with the crowds and trying to keep tabs on my friend -- couldn't pass too many people too swiftly.
Cadence was surprisingly on-target for me, in the sense that I've always thought myself a low-cadence rider, and according to the Garmin, I never dipped below 80 while pedaling, and 90% of the time was between 85 and 100, which is pretty much exactly where I want to be. The 71 average is just because it's factoring in all the zero samples it took while I was coasting (which I just have to stop doing :) )
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