Quote from aikigreg on Apr 20th, 2007, 6:47am:I gotta get my Heart rate monitor working. Mine ended up at 18.6 aveage, which is a PB by far on the P-38, and I'm still getting dropped like a hot rock.
Maybe we need to just dust the heck out of them early in the ride. That long flat stretch against the wind should let us get some distance when we hit that first big hill. They'd catch up to us on the plume, but at least we'd be able to keep the in sight - might spur us to beat their butts.
BTW - did you see the tangle ridge golf course when I pointed out the sign?
I expect if we made an early attack, the paceline would just ratchet it up and reel us in; I'm not fast enough to stay ahead of these guys when they're in a paceline. That's the way recumbent racers like John Schlitter beat the uprights, though, leave them behind on the flats, then hang on on the climbs. I just ain't there yet.
Of course, you may be able to stay with them when you get your Tica. My average now is about 2 1/2 mph slower than the paceline, and yours is about 3 mph slower. You could very well gain that much with the Tica.
Heart monitors work pretty well for gaging your effort. When those two roadies came up behind me, my first effort to stay ahead was too much; I could see my heart rate was going to reach max, so I backed off one gear, to keep it 10 or 12 below max, figuring I could hold that the rest of the ride, and so I did. And while they did get my wheel after I slowed, they weren't able to get past me.
I saw the Tangleridge sign. If we used that as a starting point, though, we'd miss that first wonderful hill (unless we went down it, then turned around).