Eppies 2015 goals

Run: 6:30 miles = 36.34 elapsed time
T1: 2 mins
Bike: 24.5 MPH = 29.17 elapsed time
T2: 1.3 mins
Kayak: 6:36 miles  = 40 elapsed time

Total time: 1:48:48

Eppies 2015: race bike

It's the yellow Varsity on the ground, not the red/white/blue one. Seriously.

2nd paddle in a few days...

2.14.2011 status

Been running intense, and injured the hip, it was getting really painful, so I've taken 4 days off, going to be running tonight easy mile or two.

Decided to just buy a Visiontech integrated aerobar on the P4alu. Got it for $60 shipped which is a deal. Pretty aero aerobar, and easy to control the bike that way. The south canal TT series starts mid March, so about a month away.

Got the VISP road bike just about built now, mounted the Powertap on it last night, still need to test it. Think its ready for a trial ride, will be doing an FTP test this week.

this year

My resolution this year is to stay consistently training, go to bed earlier, obsess about the Great Race. I’m back in Sacramento, I can easily go running, biking and kayaking in this city. No excuses.

 

6 minute miles on a 10k. I need a new PR to win Eppies.

 

 

It's January and I'm racing tomorrow?

Have never done a duathlon, maybe any multisport race in the month of January before. Haven’t been training much. A few runs, ride my bike home 3 miles every day.

 

Tomorrow is TBF’s New Year’s Duathlon. It’s free: 2mi run/7 mi bike and 2 mi run.

 

Will be riding my commuter bike actually. The course is twisty, but I’m riding it because my Cervelo TT bike is in pieces. Almost done with the aero front modification.

 

My goal is to average 7:30 min/mi pace on both runs and average 23mph on the bike. That’s about 46:30, so the goal is sub 47 minutes. Not sure if I can hold 7:30 miles, but I’m going to try. Knowing myself, I’m going to try and hold 7:15 pace and see what happens.

 

 

my aerobars

Aerobars are about done. 14.5cm outside to outside. About $80 in parts and labor

AOD modified

Going a different direction with the bars:

 

Will miter the tubes myself and have a local welder put it all together for me. 

Bending my own bars

I'm going to be bending my own "base bars" this week. It will be a cross between an aero or die (AOD) setup and a Scott 100k.  The Scott 100k are 11 inches wide outside to outside. Mine will be about 8 inches outer to outer. Extensions will be 6 inches apart inside - inside.

As you can see from the above, the tube will be placed on the left side of the "jig" and then wrapped around the center block. This will create the U shaped basebar. The tubing I'm using is 25.4" outer diameter with 22.2 internal diameter-----aero extensions will slide into it.