We are currently in Hermann, MO, which is a beautiful little town repleat with Winery's and Breweries (which are of-course off-limits to us racers and our crews). Hermann sits at 1,909 miles into the race so a little over 1,000 to go. Our shift was mush shorter today--about 8:15 and thoroughly enjoyable! Compared to Kansas, the weather was awesome--about 94 right now and humid but the wind was manageable and the course was up and down all day with rollers--lots of fun. Hermann is short of TS 34 so I don't have up to date info but this is where we were after TS33:
4th TDL
5th Us Guys: 10 minutes behind--we gained 3 minutes
6th The Coppers: 96 minutes behind us--we put 21 minutes on them today
7th XSTRATA: 21 minutes behind the Coppers--we put 22 minutes on them today.
We managed our two flats with probably only a minute penalty in total and were even able to call ahead to a bike store and have an employee meet us on the road for more tires and tubes. A pretty successful day. The Killer B's are kiddie hunting right now!
My role seemed to be shorter, very high intensity shifts today. I averaged my highest power output today. Here was my last pull:
17:51
6.4 miles
21.9 mph
258 watts
84 rpm
We have a short rest period. soon we'll head up the road to TS 37 (Effingham, IL) where hopefully we'll be in 4th or very close to the kids and just 868 miles to go.
OK--I'm going to try to get 2-3 hours rest as we'll pull 200 or so from 1-10 a.m. tomorrow.
4th TDL
5th Us Guys: 10 minutes behind--we gained 3 minutes
6th The Coppers: 96 minutes behind us--we put 21 minutes on them today
7th XSTRATA: 21 minutes behind the Coppers--we put 22 minutes on them today.
We managed our two flats with probably only a minute penalty in total and were even able to call ahead to a bike store and have an employee meet us on the road for more tires and tubes. A pretty successful day. The Killer B's are kiddie hunting right now!
My role seemed to be shorter, very high intensity shifts today. I averaged my highest power output today. Here was my last pull:
17:51
6.4 miles
21.9 mph
258 watts
84 rpm
We have a short rest period. soon we'll head up the road to TS 37 (Effingham, IL) where hopefully we'll be in 4th or very close to the kids and just 868 miles to go.
OK--I'm going to try to get 2-3 hours rest as we'll pull 200 or so from 1-10 a.m. tomorrow.
1 comment:
Awesome! Please tell me hubby (SGM) Chris I love him bunches and give him a big stinky hug!
Great job guys!
Very proud wife,
Dana
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