bikerteam
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Exceed Your Limitations
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Bud - the organizers did a very good job. There were at least 10 volunteers taking care of registration as well as the riders. Even though it's not USCF, there were 3 USCF officials starting each TT racer. 1 held the bikes, and two were starting/timing. Other volunteers were out offering food and drinks. They even catered Subway (a Bud favorite). I rode the Ti Aero because I have a Renn Madeira disk and Zipp 404 front. It's a nine speed, so it won't fit the Xstream. This was my first year, and I'll definately be back. Even the mechanic from RBM wanted to talk bents with me. If I had planned and trained for short distance TT, I could have performed better. So I've got a goal for next year. Train months in advance, and attempt to increase avg. speed by 2-3 mph. A 25 mph average would quality for state, and possibly "nationals". Regarding heart rate. I did the 5k TT first, and had about 45 mnutes before the 10k. I couldn't get my heart rate under 122 between races. And I was dizzy, so much so that I was afraid if I walked around I'd faint. So I rested for 30 minutes before I staged for the 10k. I felt great once I started cranking the pedals, but after the 10k, I felt real dizzy again. Took a long cold shower at TMS, drank lots of hydration fluids (before, during and after the races). It must have been the combination of heat and extreme intensity. Peggy, Angie and I rode a 40 miler with the Flower Mound "Texas Flyers" today. Conversation pace for the most part (except for my sprints), I had an avg. HR of 129. I felt great afterwards.
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