Sounds like a SPARTAN effort  
 

Quote from Kwijybow on Mar 22^nd, 2008, 5:13pm:

 
Fixed!  
 
 
I am stil dissapointed, but otoh, shouldn't expect too much given how much it hurts to cycle.  I gotta find a way to fix this.  The best part of the ride was the conversation at  Subway afterwards - thanks y'all!
 
Also we generated a LOT of buzz, and one of the TT guys wanted to try out my bike.  Several were circling it like a pack of dogs, just trying to figure out if it was trying to become the alpha dog or if it was just a fire hydrant

That was a great time yesterday. Now I have my first one out of the way, I have only one way to go, thats to get faster much faster.I was not every well trained  for that type of an event. I need to work on sprint intervals and being able to work at my max heart rate for the hole 35 minutes or so.
Thanks to Steve, Nelson, Greg and Robert for not letting me quit before I started, I am so lucky to ride with a great group of people.  Robert it was great to met you, congratulations on getting your first time trial under your belt. Hope to see you at the next HCTT in May.
                                                                                                                    Peggy

I didn't beat the pants off anybody!  You guys were very close! (well maybe a bra)
I really enjoyed the subway fellowship as well, Thanks for that.
 
As an interesting comparison I dug up my 1 mile lap splits from last July.
 
03/22/08                                   07/28/07
Lap Split      Avg            Lap Split      Avg
1:55      31.3            2:02      29.5
2:05      28.7            2:11      27.3
2:09      27.7            2:13      26.9
2:39      22.5            2:43      22.0
2:27      24.4            2:32      23.6
2:07      28.2            2:12      27.1
3:31      17.0            3:01      19.9
3:45      15.9            2:46      21.7
3:31      17.0            2:29      24.1
3:16      18.4            2:19      25.7
4:12      14.3            3:10      18.9
4:22      13.7            3:00      19.9
1:37      11.9            1:08      16.6
37:36      19.7            31:46      23.3
 
 
I was definitely in better shape for going fast last summer than now, but there was very little wind that day, and it was 80 degrees vs somewhere in the 50's.  I clock the course at 12.32 with my GPS.
 
Take Care,
Nelson.

Looks like it was a well-attended event - congrats, Kevin!!!

The best part of the ride was getting to meet the folks I only knew as forum contributers - Steve, Peggy and Nelson - and also good to see Greg again on his bike.  Sorry I didn't get to stay around and enjoy everyone's company at lunch, but I had a house full of relatives I needed to keep entertained.  
Having never participated in an "official" race in any sport, I was looking forward to giving this a try before I get any older than I already am!  I pretty well expected I'd be the slowest bent rider there, so I tried to make it a race against myself.  I have a 13 and 21 mile course in Keller that I occasionally try to bust a gut and see how fast I can go.  My best before this time trial was a 17.4 average.  I think I did the TT in 17.45, so I suppose I should be pretty happy, especially given that I haven't put many miles on the bike this year so far.  I'll have to work on my training regimen and see if I can't do better next time.  It was still fun, or at least the part up to the turnaround - mostly downhill and with the wind.  I thought I was really cooking until Greg caught me only a couple of miles from the start!  Peggy was in front of me and I might have gained a little ground early on, but decided it wouldn't be wise to put out the effort that would have been required to catch her.  I tried to keep the heartrate in the 145-155 range going out, as I thought I could sustain that.  After the turnaround and heading uphill and into the wind, it didn't take long for my heart rate to max out around 162 and once I get to that point there's no "faster" to be had!  Greg caught up to Peggy and they yo-yoed back and forth a couple of times.  Peggy's adrenaline must have kicked in with Greg on her tail as the last I saw it looked like she was gradually pulling away.  After another hill or so I lost sight of them both.
I enjoyed riding with everyone.  You guys are strong riders on a not particularly bent-friendly course.  See you at the next one if not earlier.

Quote from Strada177 on Mar 22^nd, 2008, 2:51pm:

 
Must have been a heck of an east wind!

I didn't post that Steve did.There was nothing indecent.  I put on a jacket and left it on the rest of the day.
                                                                Mrs Strada

I have a few post ride pictures back, pretty humorous to hear about Peggy's bra busting effort, but unless I'd been informed I'd have been none the wiser.  The pics are on my flickr:
 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nelson_ralls/2360146170/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nelson_ralls/2360147660/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nelson_ralls/2359314151/in/photostream/
 
some in race photo's can be found here
 
http://www.simplephoto.com/SC/index.cfm?fuseaction=EventLoad&eid=5435190& ;fn=DanApgarPhotography
 
pages 5,6,9
 
the actual moment of escape?
 
http://www.simplephoto.com/SC/index.cfm?fuseaction=dspImg&iCnt=295&tpg=9 &CFID=8185&CFTOKEN=1033BE6D-6F80-151C-D68C7F21A9ED8083&rand=EF84D221-1226-DB39-389F5DD755D29397
 
http://www.simplephoto.com/SC/index.cfm?fuseaction=dspImg&iCnt=296&PageC nt=1&tpg=9&CFID=8185&CFTOKEN=1033BE6D-6F80-151C-D68C7F21A9ED8083&rand=149D1079-974F-1605-D036163BA05E9132
 
 
Take Care,
Nelson.
 
 

Quote from FlyingLaZBoy on Mar 25^th, 2008, 8:45am:

 
I bet JS made him promise to remove his kickstand before sending the jersey.....

Quote from Bud_Bent on Mar 25^th, 2008, 8:58am:

 
Soo. Would it be bad if I got a B jersey to go with my kickstand, rack, fenders, reflective tape and lights    
Maybe if I got an aero helmet before I get up there it'll cancel out.

Ah ok. I looked through all the photos though and saw all race oriented bikes and I recall from HHH less then a handful with any fender/rack/lights. I wonder how much time if any i'd save taking all that off but if I'm just comparing one run to the next no reason to pull it off at all.

Interesting Chart that lays it out:
 

Hey Nelson (or whoever might know):  Is there any way of accurately measuring your sustainable power output without buying a bunch of expensive gadgets?
Robert

Interesting -- the Kreuzotter calculator puts me at roughly 300 watts for the TTTT loop, but wouldn't that be considered a hilly course?  If I put in what I do on the 7.5 mile GDB TT course, it approaches 380 watts...  
 
Guess I'm somewhere close to one bulb short of a 4-pack...  

I used think I wanted one, but the price put me off too.  Now I no longer think I could justify it for the type of riding I do.  I guess if I were to get serious about racing, but honestly I feel like I've finally put that bug behind me.  I had a pretty serious decade of racing from the ages of 18-28.  Then I got married, fat, happy and trauma adverse.  I really never even use the heart rate monitor anymore, which is also a good tool if you understand its limitations.  The nice thing about a power meter is it provides consistent accurate feedback.  The heart monitor can be thrown off by all kinds of things that cause our complicated biological engines to run different but still have the same output.  
 
For the Tejas TT loop I use the SWB bent in racing config, along with no wind (it is a loop) and a 1% slope and it produces a number @240 which is about in the ballpark I expected.
 
Take care,
Nelson.
 

RBM Richardson has Power meter wheels and units available to rent for 1 day, 3 days, etc.  Not sure on pricing, but could be fun to rent one and use for everyone in the group to get numbers
 
I plan to do this one day and measure my times at the Plano Crit course for some solo laps, the HCTT course, and a 3 mile flat TT run I can do that has no lights or stop signs
 
No real reason other than having all new numbers to obsess over.
 
DB

Pretty sure they are all 700s