Barcombe 3rds

[siwickm]

Hello All,

Just back from my Polish training camp so headed over to Barcombe yesterday for a race. Was greeted with light rain and a bit of wind but nothing too bad. The course is lots of long drags with a couple of fast downhill descents. The finish is on a climb after a drag up and is quite tough after you have been round the course 7 times. Overall distance on my clock including the neutralised zone was 93km which was longer than I had expected.

I attacked on the first lap as per normal and was then bought back in quite quickly. I sat in and then did a few turns on the front to bring back another break with Christian Yates and another guy from GS CC. We got them back and then I sat back in. Coming to the finish we were all together but unfortunately I was not strong enough to really compete for the sprint and trundled in at a lowly 17th place.

To be honest I was just happy to finish as it was quite a tough slog but also pleased I had the strength to do a bit of work and felt quite confident riding in the bunch etc. Bring on next week.

Not sure about the spelling of my name below, don't think they could read my dodgy writing.

Cheers

Marek....

March 26, 2006 - Surrey League/Brighton Excelsior - Barcombe - 3rds - 62 miles

Pos Name Club/Team Cat Time
1 Martin Markowski Bayeux Landscapes 3 02:34:00
2 Ben Spurrier Evans RT 3 ST
3 Andy Betts Twickenham 3 ST
4 James King DeLaune CC 3 ST
5 Tom Copeland Fit-For J ST
6 Ben Thompson Glendene 3 ST
7 Glyn Ostler TM Racing 3 ST
8 Matt Green Crawley CC J ST
9 Michael Sneyd London Dynamo 3 ST
10 Sam Fensterheim DeLaune CC J ST
11 Rob Jeffroy London Dynamo 3 ST
12 Niall Digby Sigma Sport 3 ST
13 Jim McManus Interbike RC 3 ST
14 Toni Bond TM Racing 3 ST
15 Chester Hill TM Racing 3 ST
16 Martin Williamson London Dynamo 3 ST
17 Marek Siukly Addiscombe CC 3 ST
18 Billy Whenman Marin UK 3 ST
19 Mark James GS Stella 3 ST
20 Tom Burke Citihub 3 ST
21 Mark Simmons Kingsnorth Int Wheelers 3 ST
22 Chris Yates In-gear RT 3 ST
23 Chris Howard Southborough 3 ST
24 Dan Bennett Sussex Nomads 3 ST
25 Chris White GS Stella 3 ST
26 Huw Watkins London Dynamo 3 15"
27 Brad Lamb Victoria CC 3 18"
28 Dominic Coughlin SP Systems/Wightlink J 1 lap
29 Rob Tipples San Fairy Ann CC 3 "
30 Chris Campbell London Dynamo 3 "
31 Daniel Clarke Brighton Mitre 3 "
32 Toby Leyton Brighton Mitre 3 "
33 Mark Goodman Bayeux Landscapes 3 "
34 Jon Masters Redhill CC 3 "
35 Jame Gowan Bayeux Landscapes 3 "
36 Mark Paton Sussex Nomads 3 "
37 Colin Bateman Festival RC 3 "
38 Jeremy Cooper SP Systems/Wightlink 3 "
39 James Ebdon SP Systems/Wightlink J "

[Toks]

Hey well done Marek a respectable finish. We'll have to have a competition to see who gets their name spelt incorrectly most often in racing results. The winner Martin Markcowski was a very strong ex 1st cat. He's actually won the perfs before. Hope to see you this saturday!

[Marek]

Here are my race statistics from Barcombe off my hrm. To put my Heart rate into context my max is about 206bpm. So my average HR was around 86% of max, so similar to a normal club run really.

Ascent is the number of metres climbed throughout the race if you were just riding straight up. I would be interested to see how the climbing compares to Eastway, any of your guys doing eastway got the altitude function on your Polar?

Cheers

Marek...

Duration 2:40:25

Energy Expenditure 3094 kcal
Number of Heart Beats 28408 beats
Recovery -90 beats
Minimum Heart Rate 102 bpm
Average Heart Rate 177 bpm
Maximum Heart Rate 199 bpm
Standard Deviation 12.0 bpm

Minimum Speed 8.0 km/h
Average Speed 34.6 km/h
Maximum Speed 60.3 km/h
Distance 92.5 km

Minimum Altitude 119 m
Average Altitude 142 m
Maximum Altitude 165 m
Ascent 1140 m
Descent 1098 m

[Toks]

Very interesting! I very rarely use my heart rate monitor in races now. I think it affects me psychologically (have panic attacks when it gets too high) so i'd rather ride on feel. I do record my waking heart rate a few times a week though. Its normally 48 and if its any higher than 54 it normally means I'm coming down with something or I need a rest from training. On last sat 2/3 race the average speed was approx 24mph and my maximum speed was 36mph