Race Stats
Total: 47 races
- 2 wins
- 7 Podiums
- 21 Top-10s
- 0 DNFs (I didn’t jinx it)
Time Trial Specialist:
- Both of my wins came in time trials (Shelby County GP Stage 1, and the Wisconsin State TT)
- Out of eleven TTs, I finished in the Top 10% seven times
Not a Field Sprinter:
- I never finished inside the Top 10 in a field sprint, road race or crit – the highest I ever finished in a field sprint was 14th out of 65 in the River Gorge Omnium Crit. There were Omnium points on the line…
Training Stats (as of December 26, 2018):
Totals:
- Total Distance: 17,928 miles
- Total Time: 880 hours
- Total Elevation Gain: 487,815 feet
- Total kJs burned: 4,475,000 (~13,000/week) or…
- 7,949 Big Macs
- 28,685 tacos
- 4,068 pints of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
- Half a million spinach salads
Averages:
- Average daily distance: 49.1 miles
- Average speed: 20.37 mph
Speed Records:
- Fastest track race: 30.7 mph (Northbrook scratch race)
- Fastest road race: 26.5 mph (Elgin road race – Intelligentsia – 77 miles)
- Fastest time trial: 28.8 mph (U23 Nationals)
- Fastest crit: 28.7 mph (River Gorge Omnium)
[I like going fast. Can you tell?]
Fun Stuff:
- Max speed: 59.1 mph (GMSR Stage 3)
- Max heart rate: 189 bpm (last 200 meters on App Gap)
- Longest ride: 126 miles (summer training ride)
- Hardest training ride: October 18th, 2018. Rode 100 miles without looking at my bike computer. And I rode hard. Normalized power of 269 W (4.2 W/kg) for 4 hours 34 minutes.
- In addition to 880 hours of riding, I performed 128 hours of strength training in 2018
Nerd Stuff:
- Highest TSS (one week): 1163 TSS (early April, in preparation for the Tour of the Gila)
- Peak Fitness (CTL): 125
- Lowest Fitness (CTL): 93
- Lowest Form (TSB): -29
Credit to Strava, TrainingPeaks, and RoadResults for the numbers