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Silvermine
It’s Mike Norton and the Motor vs. the Westwood boys. Should be quite the showdown. Will Accardi spank the 4’s on a hillier course?
Calvert Toefield
Will there be a catch? Will any teams work to keep the 4’s away? Who’s going to do the chasing?
Bawm Chicka Bow Wow shirt for best prediction.
Are the merrill/edgemont teams taking bets on the Shen/Accardi showdown on a hilly course? Are odds/time spread being offered?
I’m clearly biased towards my teammate. Accardi takes Shen by 45 seconds.
Anthony’s about 20 pounds heavier, puts out maybe 40 more watts. If I’m ever going to beat him this would be the course. But I still think he’ll climb faster. I pick myself only if I can sabotage his bike.
you guys should run a contest. who can get the best picture of themselves with a Bawm Chicka Bow Wow shirt.
Examples:
Shaking hands with the president.
In the sahara desert
On the space station
On the podium at ‘cross nationals
4’s Keep it together if it’s dry
Wet roads= Ugli
Silvermine:
1st Will R, 2nd Motor 1-2
AA and Hungry on Podium
Maria Quiroga (women’s 4)
Filip Capala (Jrs)
That most guys (and gals) will be cleaning their bikes by the time I wake up! ahhh down time is good…
Mike Norton
Roger Aspholm
Will Riffelmacher (Will do you have a tt bike?)
Ken Harris
Jon Orcutt
Troy Kimball
4’s
Accardi & Shen
Juniors
Filip Capala
The question is will the teams in the 4’s who have strong riders in the 3’s try to slow the field down to let the 3’s catch them? or will the 4’s be out to prove a point and hold the 3’s at bay as long as possible?
Expect a wet, windy and cold race which will either be hot from the gun or the usual negative racing with the fast men holding out for a group gallop.
If (like me) you’re a Mac user who’s recently purchased a PowerTap and find yourself fretting like Hamlet over whether you should spend <<even more>> time and dough on a second-hand Windows laptop just to install CyclingPeaks and gaze at 100 different color plots of your mediocrity, there is now a freeware application that will buy you more time to fret:
You can download it here:
http://goldencheetah.org/download.html
It’s called GoldenCheetah. It started out this summer as a suite of simple command-line apps and scripts written by a young guy in his spare time. Orginally it had to be run from terminal window, but now is a single GUI application that works reliably (at least with
firmware 2.21 and USB harness) and is easy to use.
It’s quite rudimentary at this point, one window showing ride summary data, and another one showing plots for wattage, heart rate, speed, and cadence, with a data smoothing slider. But he’s intending to add features like power distribution, power target and heart zones, interval plotting, etc., as time becomes available (he’s a busy student). It’s certainly no CyclingPeaks at this point, but combined with a pen and a notebook, you can probably get by OK with it.
Supposedly Saris is releasing their Mac version of PowerAgent in October, but I doubt it would be much more sophisticated than this. If any of you know your way around C compiling perhaps you can chip in and help him out (it’s an open source project).
Just though I’d pass the info along,
George
Accardi by a nose. Anyone who beats me to the park in the morning is one sick @#$% and deserves to win.
Go old guys with kids!
watch out for remax…