5/7/2011 Kissena Opening Weekend Day One

Position: Queens, NY
Altitude: 50 feet above Sea Level
Equipment: Tiemeyer Track bike
Front Wheel: Cane Creek 85mm
Front Tire: Tufo S3 lite 19mm tubular

Rear Wheel: Karbona disk wheel

Rear Tire: Tufo S3 lite 21mm tubular
Bars: Drop bars with aero clip on bar 
Seat Post: Kinked
Warm up gear: 48 x 16 = 81"
Racing Gear: 49 x 14 = 94"
Riders at track: 80 

2011 Kissena Opening Weekend

http://www.kissena.info/track/

4/30/2011 Kissena Royale Pics by T.Sakamoto

See here for more pics, and here for official results.

Training Summary Sheet - 4/30/2011

One Gear No Breaks - Book

This book is a great read. It gives you an insight into the struggles some athletes have to go through to make it big. Yet winning a gold medal at the Olympics does not guarantee you anything.

Kissena Track Training - 5/1/2011

Position: Queens, NY
Altitude: 50 feet above Sea Level
Equipment: Tiemeyer Track bike
Wheels: Mavic Ellipse clinchers
Tires: Vittoria Open Corsa Evo CX
Bars: Drop bars with aero clip on bar 
Seat Post: Kinked
Warm up gear: 48 x 16 = 81"
Training Gear: 48 x 16 = 81"
Riders at track: 8

20 lap incremental warm up - 81" gear
2- 100 meter sprints - 81" gear (90% effort)
30 lap tempo - 81" gear

2 -200 meter standing starts - 81" gear (100% effort)

1 - 400 meter standing start lap - 81" gear (100% effort) in 32.2 seconds

      (average speed = 27.8 mph, average cadence = 117 rpm)

10 lap warm down 81" gear

Temp 60 to 65F
Sunny

Bike setup

Standing start 400 meter lap in 81 inch gear

Definitely got faster in my standing 400 meter. On June 28 2009 I did a 32.44 seconds time for the 400 meter using a 90 inch gear (50x15) with disk rear wheel and tri spoke front, aero helmet and shoe covers. Today I did a 32.20 seconds in an 81 inch gear (48x16) using regular spoked clinchers without an aero helmet nor shoe covers, the temp was also colder at about 65F. The difference today was I used a clip on aero bar which probably helped with reducing frontal area once I got up to speed. I also used a kinked seat post which placed me in a more forward time trial power position. During the winter I worked on increasing my cadence range.

 

Kissena Royale - Garmin Data

Position: Queens, NY
Altitude: 50 feet above Sea Level
Equipment: Tiemeyer Track bike
Wheels: Cane Creek Sprint 85
Tires: Tufo S3 Lite tubulars
Warm up gear: 48 x 16 = 81"
Race Gear: 48 x 14 = 92"
Riders at event: 40

20 lap incremental warm up - 81" gear
2- 100 meter sprints - 81" gear (80 to 90% effort)
1- 400 meter lap - 81" gear (90% effort)
Change gear
5 - laps easy rolling - 92 inch gear
1 - 75 meter standing start 92 inch gear (100% effort)

Temp 55 to 65F
Sunny
Windy
Polleny

Chariot: got second in this event (92 inch gear), did 400 meters in about 32 seconds

7 lap scratch - got dropped like a hot potato (92 inch gear)

5 lap scratch - got 5th (92 inch gear)


It was a great day for racing considering all the bad weather we've been having. This was my first racing for the season, didn't want to take any chances and end up with Kissena rash or worse. The event was well run and there were loads of prizes (see pics below). The only negative were the spores / pollen floating around the park - I left the track sneezing, runny nose, headache, slight fever and itchy eyes.