Dave and I participated in the Team Psycho, hosted by Fast Splits, indoor time trial last week. It was 9.3 mile (15km) ITT on Computrainers. Heats went every hour starting at 8am, consisting of 16 riders per heat. We both signed up for the 11am heat and arrived around 10am to watch that heat and start warming up.
Unlike other ITT’s this one wasn’t the best in preparation. Very casual… to say the least.
At 11 we got setup for our heat and when the timer counted down, we went off. We both had a plan from our coach to stay “easy” for the first 3 minutes (for me that meant 335w), then kick it up to the 15 minute mark (for me, go to 350w), then for the remainder hit your average to that point, which should have been about 345w. I started out to plan, but about 10 minutes in, I could no longer hold the 350w and started slowing down a bit. My HR was pegged at about 176 and I just couldn’t do it. Power started dropping drastically. At this point I was 2nd plance in the heat, and hanging about 300ft back of 1st, but couldn’t make any gains.
I ended up finishing with a time of 22:57.9 which was good for 12th on the day. I’ll take it. 334w average. Not great… but good enough. Local stud Ethan Brown took the top spot with a 21:27 @ 376 average watts. Crazy power for a 144 pound lanky kid. Hannah Freeman was top female with a 24:05, besting pro triathletes Karen Smyers, Dede Griesbauer, and Cait Snow.
Dave finished 20th overall with a 23:24 @ 304w. But believes his CT was off – and should have been closer to 265w. You never know.
Oh, and there was no beer post race at the event as promised – so we hit up Chipotle for some burritos and Dos XX‘s!
Let’s get to some outdoor racing!
