>> President's Weekend 3-Day Team 2012 EN February Bike Challenge
Welcome to the President's Weekend 3-Day, Team 2012 EN February Bike Challenge!!!!
The score keeping starts on SATURDAY 2/18. Full rules and details below. Remember this challenge is open to ANYONE, so please spread the word!
When: February 18th thru the 20th (Holiday Weekend)
Who Can Play: Anyone!
Rules: Earn points by riding how you want over the 3-day weekend, honor system please!
How To Earn Points:
* 1pt = 60' of JRA/z1 — This is your ride all day pace, warm up, noodling, etc. RPE=1/10.
* 1pt = 30' of Work/z3 — This is your tempo pace, think fast Half Iron bike pace; RPE=6-7/10.
* 1pt = 15' of FTP/LTHR/z4 — This is your threshold effort, think Olympic Tri/40k TT; RPE=8/10.
* 1pt = 7' of Very Hard/30-30s/z5 — This is max effort, think puke pace; RPE=10/10.
How To Earn Additional Points:
* 1pts = Pic of you competing/puking/dying/climbing
* 2pts = Video of you doing any/all of the above
* Submit the above by tweeting the pic and tagging it #workworks
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.
And to sweeten the pot, Coach Rich and Coach Patrick are going to provide the following prizes for the top 3 finishers of this event. They are:
1st Place = $30 iTunes Gift Card
2nd Place = $20 iTunes Gift Card
3rd Place = $10 iTunes Gift Card
Start planning the hurt!!!
John
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P.S. A little love from our very own Nemo from a previous year!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpvGlp1KPKM
Comments
Hope the weather is nice...I prefer to puke outside.
OK gang, to sweeten the pot Coach Rich and Coach Patrick are going to provide the following prizes for the top 3 finishers of this event. They are:
1st Place = $30 iTunes Gift Card
2nd Place = $20 iTunes Gift Card
3rd Place = $10 iTunes Gift Card
So who needs some new tunes for their iDevice?
Game on!
It all begins tomorrow! Are you all ready?
WU 10’ at Z2,
MS 3 X 10 X 1’Z5 X 1’Z1 (5’ Z1)
+ 5 X 1’Z5 X 1’Z1
CD 5’Z1
Total time 1:40 TSS 128, IF= .879
Points = 6.25
The last 5 1’X’1 were rough with the last one being all I could do to hold the watts.
2x10Z4 1pt
1x5Z4
2x15Z3 1pt
30' z1 work
But, 2 pics tweeted-2 pts
2 videos tweeted-4 pts.
9+ pts !
Work: 2148kJ
TSS: 242.4 (IF 0.898)
PNorm: 211
VI: 1.07
Distance 56.8
I did the following work for a total of 6 points:
14' ON
30' FTP
60' ABP
I'm not sure how points are being tallied...I also did 30' straight up at Z1. If I include my warmup and rest intervals for the Z5 work that would put me a few minutes over 60' at Z1 for an extra point. Should I/are you guys counting that? If I include that I have 7 points.
Wow some strong rides yesterday!! Great legs for all today!
Yes Zone 2 is not in the list for points.Odd!! Worst case is count that as time in Zone 1.
Well, I'm not going to take the cake on the challenge as a whole, didn't end up making it back out today as originally planned and it's back to work tomorrow... but I still wanted to share my ride from yesterday as I intended.
Was a pretty day of riding up the coast in North San Diego county. Headed out to hit some climbs on the way up north then cruise up to Encinitas / Leucadia and snap some photos along the way. Had a good mix of some hard climbs and some JRA / sightseeing. Felt a little flat on the climbs, could feel having skipped the rest day in lieu of a swim/bike brick on Friday after work, but still just a fun day to be outside.
From the Garmin:
And this last one I'm not quite sure about but,
The NP is as reported by my Edge 800, but need to cross-reference with WKO when I switch computers since that seems higher than expected. 16mph is pretty dismal but the 5200 ft of climb had a little something to do with it, actually had a bit more but I did the dreaded 'forgot to unpause the garmin' after stopping for a drink at one point.
Anyway, the scenery I wanted to share:
Torrey Pines Glider Port, looking down at Black's Beach on my way up North:
Swami's Beach in Encinitas, roughly around the halfway point:
Mt Soledad looking down at La Jolla, my third time up to the Mt Soledad summit that day:
Garmin ride is here: connect.garmin.com/activity/150620425
Few more photos here: picasaweb.google.com/109511096432666716650/Feb182012
To all of my winter-bound bretheren, my heart goes out to you, it really does, but as a wise man once said... damn it feels good to be a gansta.
15' Z1 warmup=1/4 point.
20'Z5 TT test=4 points.
pic of me & an EN teammate tweeted=1 pt.
Total=5.25 pts.
Didn't ride today. I got a tri bike about 2 weeks ago and have been adjusting my position on it and kind of getting used to it(previously training on my road bike). I had done a test this past Tuesday to figure out my numbers but I think I was fatigued before the test began. Based on my workout yesterday I don't think my FTP is accurate. So I rested today and am gonna test tomorrow. I'll post the details when I get finished. I'm a little disappointed because I wanted to get 3 solid rides in this weekend. On the other hand I'm looking forward to having an accurate FTP so that I'm training in the optimal zones.
Keep up the good work team!
Well my target for the day was 10 points. That did not happen. The legs were tired from yesterday. On top of that I started my intervals with a set of 2’ at Z5 and 1’ at Z1. Wow what a difference those are to 1’/1’. I made it though 5 reps and had to fall back to the 1’/1’ repeats. This was a long 2 hours on the trainer. It will be interesting to see how poor the legs feel tomorrow!
WU 10’ at Z2,
MS 5X 2’Z5, 1’ Z1 (5’ Z1)
+ 2 X 10 X 1’Z5 , 1’Z1 (5’ Z1)
+5’ Z4
+4 X 1’Z5 , 1’Z1 (5’ Z1)
+5 Z4
CD 5’Z1
Total time 2:00 TSS 146, IF= .866
Points = 7.17
Here are the details of the test today:
Duration: 42:12
Work: 639kJ
TSS: 70.3 (IF 0.999)
PNorm: 254
VI: 1.01
Distance 14.5
This only results in 2.67 points for the 40'' at FTP. There was no way I could do an extra 5' for the full 3rd point. So instead I am posting a video for 2 extra points! All together 4.67 points today.
You can find the video here:
It was good riding with you guys! Enjoy the holiday.
@ Doug - rather than scratching Saturdays points, can you recalculate based on the new zones? Congratulations on the nice bump in FTP!!!
Z1-20'-1/3 of a pt
Z3-20'-2/3 of a pt
Z4-20 mins-1pt-1 & 1/3 pts
tweeted pic-1 pt
3.3 total
128' @ Z1
8' @ Z3
36' @ Z4
8' @ Z5
If i calculated correctly this amounts to 5.94 points for Saturday's ride.
Nice work everyone!