Today was the San Jose Bicycle Club annual Henry Coe Hillclimb race. I did well on this same race last year and wanted to see if I could come close to that time. From the beginning of the day I just didn’t have the confidence but felt I could still do well. My time was 38:33, which was 59 seconds slower than last year. When I got home I downloaded the data from my heart rate monitor and could see that I did almost the same in terms of average heart rate. I think my weight is up about 2 lbs, so that would make some difference in time but not all of it. I calculated that I was putting out about 2 more watts last year. If my weight was down 2 lbs, it would have meant 20 seconds faster, assuming I still put out the same watts. Still it was overall a good time I won’t do that well on the overall standings hoever. First they moved me from CAT 4 to CAT 3 from last year so I had only a 5 minutes hanicap vs. 6 last year. Second they gave a ridiculous handicap to CAT 4 racers of 10 minutes, compared with 6 minutes last year. With that handicap a lot of the CAT 4 racers should place in the top 20.

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