Sep 21, 06:55 AM by Steve | Everst Challenge Day 1
Posted in Cycling & Race-Report
Kim got a great picture of me “suffering” about up the last climb just as it pitched up to about 10%…
Day 1 of Everest Challenge is in the books. My race went about as expected; I had a hard time with a lot of deep breathing due to the discomfort from the fractured ribs, and eventually had to disconnect from the lead group of about 20 a few miles after Tom’s place. I tried to keep track of my position but eventually with passing, unpassing, repassing, etc. I lost count. I figure about 20 of my field finished ahead of me. The most annoying part was that I got passed with about 1K to go and if I had lower gearing I may have been able to keep up with him but as it was I was pretty fried and was pushing 350+ watts up the ~12% grade just to keep from falling over. We didn’t do the South lake climb (the last 7 miles) last year because of the snow, diverting instead of Lake Sabrina. It was quite an ass-kicker, more than I expected, and just when I thought I was about to be done, two guys standing at “the end” pointed up a driveway that took up up another steep but short grade to the finish in the upper parking lot.
Update: I was 14th with a time of 7:41 and change. There were 52 registered, a handfull did not start and only 30-something finished.
Entire race (140 watts):
Duration: 7:41:51
Work: 3889 kJ
TSS: 261.7 (intensity factor 0.583)
Norm Power: 163
VI: 1.16
Pw:HR: -1.32%
Pa:HR: 29.8%
Distance: 101.142 mi
Elevation Gain: 17788 ft
Elevation Loss: 12479 ft
Grade: 1.0 % (5310 ft)
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 438 140 watts
Heart Rate: 83 175 143 bpm
Cadence: 1 115 70 rpm
Speed: 0 61.1 13.1 mph
Pace 0:59 0:00 4:34 min/mi
Altitude: 4445 10183 6659 ft
Crank Torque: 0 493 174 lb-in
Rock Creek:
Duration: 2:20:29
Work: 1485 kJ
TSS: 105.5 (intensity factor 0.671)
Norm Power: 188
VI: 1.07
Pw:HR: 7.85%
Pa:HR: 31.27%
Distance: 24.356 mi
Elevation Gain: 6665 ft
Elevation Loss: 1073 ft
Grade: 4.4 % (5593 ft)
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 438 176 watts
Heart Rate: 100 175 153 bpm
Cadence: 1 115 74 rpm
Speed: 0 46.8 10.4 mph
Pace 1:17 0:00 5:47 min/mi
Altitude: 4541 10181 7276 ft
Crank Torque: 0 437 203 lb-in
Pine Creek:
Duration: 58:15
Work: 571 kJ
TSS: 34.5 (intensity factor 0.596)
Norm Power: 167
VI: 1.02
Pw:HR: 4.99%
Pa:HR: 6.22%
Distance: 7.755 mi
Elevation Gain: 2810 ft
Elevation Loss: 233 ft
Grade: 6.3 % (2577 ft)
Min Max Avg
Power: 29 247 163 watts
Heart Rate: 125 160 152 bpm
Cadence: 47 85 64 rpm
Speed: 1.1 17.8 8.0 mph
Pace 3:23 56:48 7:32 min/mi
Altitude: 4744 7321 6027 ft
Crank Torque: 34 341 220 lb-in
South Lake:
Duration: 2:10:15
Work: 1177 kJ
TSS: 68.7 (intensity factor 0.562)
Norm Power: 157
VI: 1.05
Pw:HR: 4%
Pa:HR: 10.31%
Distance: 17.197 mi
Elevation Gain: 5926 ft
Elevation Loss: 835 ft
Grade: 5.6 % (5091 ft)
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 384 151 watts
Heart Rate: 128 161 147 bpm
Cadence: 1 103 64 rpm
Speed: 1.1 28.6 7.9 mph
Pace 2:06 53:39 7:35 min/mi
Altitude: 4664 9755 7280 ft
Crank Torque: 0 451 206 lb-in
Nice job Steve, I wouldn’t even attempt this race.
Why the Giant instead of the tarmac?
— Josh Rennie at Sep 21, 04:11 PMthe giant has the power meter. I would have liked to use the Tarmac as it is lighter and more comfortable, but I figured the power data would help with pacing…
— steve at Sep 21, 05:47 PMgreat job sweetie!
— Kim at Sep 21, 08:12 PMyou jamming to music on the ride?? the ride looks like something i really need to try. great suffering man!!
— aham23 at Sep 22, 08:05 PM