J Squiggles

Strange, it shows up for me. It's a Vimeo video so maybe that has something to do with it.

https://vimeo.com/133014815

TheKillerPenguin

Wow, that's awesome. The course looks much tougher than the live coverage made it look.

Wylde06

Its so hard. Especially for big guys like me who don't have hills to train on to even try to somehow prep for it

furiousferret

If its any consolation, I can't train riding through a corn field.

It look a lot like our San Marcos crit, which is essentially a war of attrition. Riding smart and tactically won't compensate for those repeated efforts. Eventually 80% of the field cracks on the hill in some form and that leaves a small selection of fit riders to contest the finish.

globecanvas

Crybaby Hill is about half as long and twice as steep as the hill at Bethel*. Both are 20-25 seconds long so the effort level is really similar. Lap times are shorter at Bethel so that hill is arguably harder.

But the real difference of course is that everybody at Tulsa Tough is amped and out for glory whereas everybody at Bethel is wondering whether they will be able to knock themselves into race shape by May.



* in both cases counting the false flat section after the hill itself.

grolby

Looks super tough! However, you don't need to have hills to train on to get better at climbing them. You can get stronger and leaner on any terrain. In one sense, it's an advantage to have flat roads, it's easier to get a steady workout at whatever power and duration you want.

Ygduf

west coast is the best coast.


Also, not the right thread or anything, but in the 35+ I took 2/5 primes and my take-away was 1 pair of small socks ("sorry, this is all we have!"), and 1 box of rip-van-waffles which was OPEN and half full! 2 primes!

save10

i thought you were buy it at 2:12
what overlay software is that?

save10

!!!!

Ygduf

GPS speed is as legit as tour announcers.

save10

but its a pretty number

mattm

I wish I knew what "you were buy it" meant. "gonna bite it" maybe?

Garmin Virb software. Super pain in the ass to sync the GPS to the video..

furiousferret

They all are. Used to try to get it down to the millisecond, now if I'm within a second thats good enough.

save10

yeah basically. although the video kept going and you didnt mention you crashing....i though the Incycle guy was going to cut you off

mattm

What's most annoying about Virb is that it seems to ignore the timestamps from GPS & video (and not even display them when trying to sync), so I'm just basing the sync off of a spot on the course like a corner.

I even started the Garmin & GoPro at the same time, but it didn't seem to help.

Doge

Track NC was 1-2 hours drive for our team. So they decided to do the 17-18 team pursuit - with about 50 laps total practice. They certainly could have used some more and I'm not sure beach day was a good idea the day before. Anyway, they ended up 9 sec faster than last year's winning time, and 3 sec slower than our worlds team - who is off to Kazakhstan this week. There are obvious things to fix here, but that takes time and focus. Still interesting (to some I hope).
~

canuckbelle

Four videos from the weekend's races. Two are the full videos, the other two are just the final lap of each race.

Full video Saturday (Women 3/4, 17 in the field):

Full video Sunday (Women 3/4, 10 in the field):

Final lap Saturday:

Final lap Sunday:

mattm

^ awesome stuff, congrats again on those wins!

My latest vid from the Red Kite crit last weekend; have yet to record anything but me losing..

But one thing that's neat about the GoPro is replaying the exact moment I lost the race... shoulda pedaled harder!! (in this case it happens at 3:00 or so)

Ygduf

the 3:00 minute mark is heartbreaking.

shovelhd

Crit racing is easy amirite?

You had about three seconds to make that decision and it cost you a chance at the win. Hell of an effort to save it. Where did you end up?

mattm

Yeah, looking back I wish I'd just pedaled harder, as usual!

Ended up 3rd in the field sprint for 11th - but gained a few omnium points on #1 overall due to the prime I won. Either way though, I lost!

MDcatV

Not my video, but unfortunately I play the starring role guy who catapults over down rider and breaks his ribs!


https://youtu.be/Qb_kBXNUtP8

echappist

holy crap. didn't notice that you were involved until i watched through the video (originally stopped when the guy shooting the video crashed)

how are you doing?

MDcatV

mostly just sore. fortunately very minor to no road rash, I landed and bounced ... but holy eff getting the wind knocked out hurts.

globecanvas

Ow. Get well soon! The contact that initiated the crash didn't look like much at all.