EN Preisdents Day Weekend Bike Challenge 2014
Welcome to the EN 2014 President's Day Weekend Bike Challenge
The score keeping starts on SATURDAY 2/15 and ends MONDAY 2/17. Full rules and details below.
Who Can Play: Anyone!
Rules: Earn points by riding how you want over the 3-day weekend, honor system please!
How To Earn Points:
Please Note: Points are awarded for cumulative time; so 17’ of FTP riding only gets you 1 point; but 3 x 10’ at Zone 4/FTP would earn you 2 points (for 30 total minutes).
* 1pt = 60′ of JRA / Zone1 / Easy — This is your ride all day pace, warm up, noodling, etc. RPE=1/10.
* 1pt = 30′ of Work / Zone3 / ModHard— This is your tempo pace, think fast Half Iron bike pace; RPE=6-7/10.
* 1pt = 15′ of FTP / LTHR / Zone4 — This is your threshold effort, think Olympic Tri/40k TT; RPE=8/10.
* 1pt = 7′ of VO2 / Zone5 / Very Hard — This is max effort, think puke pace; RPE=10/10.
How To Earn Additional Points via Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram:
* 1pts = Pic of you competing/puking/dying/climbing
* 2pts = Video of you doing any/all of the above
* Submit the above by posting / tweeting the pic/video and tagging it @TeamEN
How To Play:
* Go to this link to the Data Sheet and enter your info; form teams if you want!
* Plan and execute workouts;
* Enter minutes in “zone” via spreadsheet calculator to tally points;
* Enter final points earned into points tab of spreadsheet;
* Honor system for reporting, scoring and non-Power/HR folks.
Here is a little video from our girl Nemo from a previous years Challenge to get you excited.
Start planning the hurt!!!
RnPnB
Comments
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Throw down: BEAT THE BADGERS!
Scott...I'm in Helotes (northwest side of San Antonio). Where are you guys camping/riding?
Are there any bonus points if I stick to my training schedule exactly to the letter with no changes....even though I do not have any events for several months?
Just kidding.
Good Luck everyone!!!
First day of the President's Day Weekend Challenge. It was early and I wasn't pretty.
Picture = 1 pt
30 min Z3 = 1
2 x 15 min Z4 = 2 pts
7 min of Z5 = 1 pt.
Total = 5 points
Trainer Road file 2/15/2014
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Day One complete. 6points in total.
Link is here:
Heh heh heh. I picked up another 3 points listening to the game this morning. And just for Brent Pilon I photobombed my TR workout.
http://www.trainerroad.com/cycling/...ee-Ride-90
Photo = 1 pt
30' of Z3 = 1 pt
15' of Z4 = 1 pt
7' of Z5 = 1 pt
Total = 4 pts
Day #2 is in the books. It was such a beautiful day, I had to ride outside. While it took way too much thinking to keep the time/zones straight, I finished up with:
Best of all, I didn't have to ride around my neighborhood even ONCE to get to the correct ride time. Small things.....
Also posted a video (and tagged WorkWorks) right before I left.
Total points for today should be......6 points!!!!Bike 2 hrs= 2 points, 30 mins of FTP=1 point, 30' of zone 3=1 point, and 1 point for 7' of VO max. Total of bike = 5, Pics and video = 1 point.
A movie is at the end of this post also.
Entire workout:
Duration: 2:01:56
Work: 1547 kJ
TSS: 162.5 (intensity factor 0.915)
Norm Power: 229
VI: 1.04
Pw:HR: -1.8%
Pa:HR: -0.27%
Distance: 36.083 mi
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 450 220 watts
Heart Rate: 120 175 168 bpm
Cadence: 30 127 84 rpm
Speed: 0 23.5 18.2 mph
Pace 2:33 0:00 3:18 min/mi
Hub Torque: 0 12 8 lb-in
Altitude: 672 691 680 ft
Crank Torque: 0 410 220 lb-in
Temperature: 64.4 73.4 66.3 Fahrenheit
Uh, Carl. If I'm reading the rules correctly you don't get 2 points just for riding 2 hours. Just sayin'.
Just reposting here in addition to the dashboard. Here's 3 more points and a video to make 5, little honey boo boo... That's 9 points for today.
30 min of Z4 = 2 pts
7 min of Z5 = 1 pt
Sunday's Part Deux Ride
Video is on the Work Works FB page. I think.
Good morning, folks. Here's this morning's session. A bit more reasonable approach. Hacking the hell out of this week's OS program... I have noticed that TR's calculation of my zone participation seems to measure things on a second to second basis overall yet when it comes to calculating the interval work it gives the average power. I do the same thing on my Garmin to measure the interval time and keep an eye on the 3 second power and average power. Those are the numbers I'm declaring in these posts.
15 min at Z4 = 1 pt
30 min at Z3 = 1 pt
Video = 2 pts
Total of 4 pts
Today's ride file on TR
Video on the Work Works FB page
1 point for 1 hour ride
2 points for JRA cause basically it was about 60 min of that
1 point for sweet spot
1 point for pic. Oh and to be technical its really 2 points for the videos so it all looks good to me.
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Carl. Carl, Carl. As you can see on my TR files, I've only been counting actual Z3, Z4 and Z5 time for point scoring. Don't feel bad though, I knew you were going to need those points to keep it close.
What kind of ride are you going to do tonight?
If you can't get a point for each hour then don't ride again cause it won't count for points
I just used the calculator on the first tab when planning my rides. For example, yesterday's ride was One hour and 37 minutes, broken down like this:
Today's first ride was scheduled at 2:14 with:
I ended up riding outside and misjudged the speed/course, so I ended up with an extra 17min of Zone 1.....deciding now if I am going to "Do A Wick" and ride a second time tonight for 43min so as to get that last two points (one for the ride and one for a I AM DONE! picture.
For now, I am at 6 points today for the ride, 2points for video.
I have really enjoyed this challenge. It helped motivate me to get my butt outside yesterday and today. BTW -- today's two and a half hour ride was the longest I have ridden since Wisconsin. I didn't enjoy the last 20min, but it hurting like that felt good in a weird sort of way.
I agree love all the challenges!!! The TOS and this challenge have been a blast. Nice work everyone.
So, to finish off the President's Day Weekend Bike Challenge I went down there in the deep dark pain cave and rang up 4 sets of 7 minutes in Zone 5. A long weekend of Z3, Z4 and Z5 salad. It was, uh... fun?
http://www.trainerroad.com/cycling/rides/754453-Free-Ride-120
Very nice work out of you??!!!! Loved the last video on Facebook.
This challenge was a lot of fun!!
Thanks. And THANK GOD it is over! It wouldn't have been the same without you and Joe.
Chapeau! Chapeau!
Well played, Sir!
I hereby concede. Ain't no way I am getting on the trainer and doing three points worth of work just to tie.
Joe, I was very jealous to see you were riding outside!!
Nice work everyone!!