Mr Big Ring Rants: Trail Run; 50K

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Monday, January 04, 2016

2015 Year in Review

2015 5867 Miles

January 346 Miles, longest 101.5 miles

February 224 miles, longest 103.9

Road Apple Roubaix 4:37 1st Single Speed

March 603 miles, longest 104.1

April 684 miles, longest 102.4

Amish Country Roubaix DNF

May 836 miles, longest 107.4

Mohican 100 12:05

June 655 miles, longest 70.1

Funk Bottoms Gravel 4:40 2nd place in shortened 200K

July 904 miles, longest 102

August 674 miles, longest 149

Gravel Worlds 10:47 29th Mens Open

September 400 Miles, longest 60.8

October 408 miles, longest 116.8

ROGR 8th place with Team 765 Racing

Cleveland Browns Dawg Pound 5k 18:15

NEOCX SSCX 7th Place, Cat5 17th Place

November 122 Miles, longest 25.7

Bills Bad Ass 50K trail run 6:20 30th overall

Road Apple Roubaix

Amish Country Roubaix

Mohican 100

Funk Bottoms Gravel

Gravel Worlds

The ROGR

NEOCX

Bills Bad Ass 50K

A crash in November at the fields in Broadview Hts practicing for the cross race would result in a grade 2 separated shoulder. The result of being off the bike for 6-8 weeks would bring an early end to my season. I am looking forward to representing Hammer Nutrition again for 2016, and racing with 765 Racing.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

2015 Bills Bad Ass 50K

Photo: Steve Pierce

November 14th was the fourth time I had been granted the privilege of running in Bills Bad Ass 50K. I'm not much of a Ultra running but the BBA50K has become the highlight of my running for the year. The race is put on by Wild Bill and Chef Bill as a free race to give back to the local running community each year. The course is 6 loops of the Perkins trail plus going up Oak Hill. Both of the Bills offer words of "encouragement" with a bull horn to the runners as they complete each loop. Along with several runner who have not entered the race running loops make for a fun atmosphere. This year they had a karaoke set up for anyone who wanted to sing a song between laps.

My running and other training had been slacking due to injury since I got back from racing in Gravel Worlds in August. My longest run was only 10 miles so I knew that it was going to be a long day.

My Fueling plan would be to use Hammer Nutrition products that I use during all of my training and in racing. I carried my usual mix of Perpetuem and HEED in my bottles. My strategy was to grab a new bottle for each lap and have an Endurolyte between each lap and every other lap have a Hammer Gel.

My time for the race in the past have been 6:36, 6:16, and 6:20. Since I have not been training properly for the race I was hoping to break 7:00 hours. My split time goals for my laps were 55, 55, 55, 1:00, 1:15, 1:15 plus the 15-20 minutes to complete last mile up hill. I was surprised that I was very close and ran 53, 53, 53, 1:01, 1:10, 1:15. My finish time of 6:20:33 was 25 seconds faster than last year and good enough for 30th place.

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

2014 Year in Review

January 228.1 Miles

February 169.6 Miles

March 465 Miles

Fools 25k Trail Race 2:55

April 646.1 Miles

May 812.8 Miles

Mohican 100 MTB Race 11:35

June 733.3 Miles

Funk Bottoms Gravel 200K DNF

July 753.1 Miles

July-August was CDCX series which I was 1st overall.

August 806.9 Miles

Gravel Worlds 10:15

September 411 Miles

Akron Marathon 3:48

October 530.9 Miles

November 516.6 Miles

Bills Bad Ass 50K 6:20

NEOCX @ the Fields SSCX and Cat 5

December 529.1 Miles

For 2014 I rode 6602.53 Miles on 186 rides making my average ride 35 miles. I ran 461 miles in 51 runs averaging just over 9 miles a run.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Busy Weekend of Racing

Saturday November 15th I ran Bills Bad Ass 50K for the 3rd time. This year we ran the 5 mile loop anti-clockwise 6 times then up Oak hill for a piece of candy. Between laps runners are heckled by Wild Bill and Chef Bill with a bull horn. There were 104 starters with 74 finishers making 30 candy-asses. My time of 6:20 was good enough for 19th place.

Photo Steve Pierce

Since the race is 6 loops fueling for the race would be easy. I made up 1 bottle with Hammer Nutrition HEED and 5 bottles with Perpetuem one bottle for each lap. I also had some of the newest flavor Hammer GEL Nocciola.

This years candy from the top of oak hill.

Bad Ass finish awards!

I was not done racing for the weekend yet. Sunday morning I did my first cyclocross race in 15 years. I raced the NEOCX series finally at the fields in Broadview Hts. I forgot how much fun cyclocross racing is. After winning the inaugural CDCX series this year I wanted to more cross racing.

My legs were a little dead from running for 6 hours the previous day and the temperature in the 20's I knew it would be an interesting day.