Velosport Roller Race

After three straight weekends of roller racing, I will shift gears and enjoy a brief 'off-season'.  While I was happy to be slowly improving week to to week, my competitors stepped up their game, which made it hard to be completely satisfied with an otherwise good performance Saturday in Davenport for the Velosport Roller Race.  Tracy Thompson edged me out to win the event by 1.3 seconds with a 5:10.7 and Shawn Loomis nearly broke my PR in Fort Dodge the next day with a time of 5:01.9.  I feel a little like I did in the picture below taken while I was awaiting a family bike ride (kid pouting on the right)...

It really is an advantage to go last in these events.  I dialed in a time just above Paul Deninger's 5:12.7 time, hoping that would also be enough to stay ahead of Tracy Thompson, and I am sure he used my 5:12:0 time as his target.  There is a reason why pro time trial events let the leaders go last.  If you know what time you need to win, you can use this knowledge to sometimes give yourself a mental boost, pushing yourself past your limit, rather than guessing how hard you need to push.

 Same grumpiness with Shawn Loomis's time... if he would have set that bar prior to our 'east coast' events, that would have definately effected our perspective.   For example, I have already adjusted my training schedule to include less upper body and more lower body strength building routines.

 Oh, well... basically have February off from racing, so I can bust out some retro workouts to go with my retro photos.

VeloSport IA Roller Race Results 23 January 2010

Senior 1/2/3

1) 5:10.8 Tracy Thompson
2) 5:12.0 Chad Bishop
3) 5:12.7 Paul Deninger
4) 5:36.8 Jeff Bradley
5) 6:01.0 Chris Reed

Senior 4
1) 6:21.7 Jon Sulzberger
2) 6:35.4 Larry Howe

Women
1) 6:00.7 Connie Inks
2) 7:12.1 Nikki Fiala
3) 7:48.8 Kim Topp
4) 7:58.1 Deb Wood
5) 11:02.6 Amie Topp

Senior 5
1) 5:38.9 Jason Rettler
2) 5:48.3 Chris Ervin
3) 7:02.3 Ken Hoffman
4) 7:33.8 Steve Brown

Masters 40+
1) 5:35.3 Mark Beatty
2) 5:48.2 Tracy Thompson
3) 5:59.7 Greg Harper
4) 6:01.4 Mike Thompson
5) 6:13.2 Gary Johnson
6) 6:41.8 Landon Beachy
7) 6:46.2 Larry Howe
8) 7:40.4 Vern Rotert
9) 7:43.2 Bob Hayes