12 July was the Stampede Road Race put on by Crankmasters. I wasn't expecting to do well since it's a Masters race and I was therefore in Masters A and required to do 120 km. The course was rolling and I'd spent the previous week at home with my new daughter and some baked goods.
I felt good at the back of the pack for most of the first lap and was surviving the climbs but I let myself lose contact on some of the descents. Usually my superior mass allows me to catch the pack on the downhill but, with the wind that day, I had to do some work to get back and that proved my undoing. I also started to feel uncomfortable in my stomach and weak in the legs so I was split from the group just before turning south on the first lap. I had hoped to hang in a little longer but it wasn't possible. To get some training in, I continued on for an extra lap until I found a few team mates chatting in the final corner of the lap. I joined them and we eventually rode back to the feed zone to let Corey know we were done for the day. Well, we did have enough energy to sprint back to the parking and enjoy some of the first burgers off the barbecue.
In total, I did 49.33 km in 1:46:12 for an average speed of 27.9 km/h and a maximum of 63 km/h. I did 550 m of climbing. My heart rate monitor was a little flakey but it thinks I averaged 161 bpm with a maximum of 186 bpm. That's not the first time I've beaten my calculated maximum of 183 bpm.
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