Bike Race Photos

a dusting of snow in town breckenridge

You know you’ve done your homework when you get called up 3rd and can line up front and center without camping at the start line. The course didn’t suit me last year. It is held where they run the Boulder Short-Track mid-week series. It looks like a bmx course to me. Tight twisty, whoppy, off-cambery, etc. But, today’s course and the Ritchey Carbons with the Tufo Flexus tublars and the all-mighty Salsa scandium ate up the course. The tublars stick like glue. It was a perfect mix of technical and a long road section. The gun went off and it was a race to the single-track. I went into it 4th so I was happy with my start. Hole-shot Greg rocked out of the start and opened up great gap and was making the race happen. But he has been in tire hell all year with a rolled tubular at Breck and today he blew a tire. The next race I’m swapping his wheels with one of my sets and not taking NO for an answer. A few guys passed me and I was sitting somewhere top 10. I really need to get a good warm-up in prior to racing. It usually take me 10-15mins into the race to start feeling good. My plan was to get there early today, but a car accident and re-route of the highway sent me scrambling to get there 45mins prior to the start. As the legs started to warm-up at the 15min mark I started picking guys off and a few mechanicals were happening as well. At one point I was rockin with the WB. We battled it out in the early season 3 races last year, so I knew we would work well together. He had a mechanical a lap later. Jeff C caught me at one point in his first 35+ race after his recent upgrade to a 2. I had the the chase group (2nd-6th) for 2nd in my sights and just kept putting on the pressure when I could. They were playing a little cat and mouse because there were 2 green mountain guys in the chase group and a green mountain guy was in 1st, so the green mountain guys weren’t working. This worked out for me cause their screwing around allowed me to hammer the road section and catch on. At this point I made an attack on the pavement and had my head down and my HR maxed and almost went off course and had to slam on the brakes.. they flew by me.. I don’t know how I misjudged the corner, but when you are anaerobic crazy things happen. O2 is going to your lungs and leg, not your brain. I caught back onto them a 1/2 lap later but I was cooked. I rolled in 5th.

Thanks to hole-shot Greg for the pics

Congrats Ann and Jake D

one guy rode off the front, but i made the 2nd – 6th chase group…..ran out of gas with 2 to go.

nothing better then compex active recovery for the drive home

Sitting 3rd in 35+ Open right now..At least I’ll get a call up and not have to camp at the start in the last few races before we move.

Out the door at 5:00am – Back home at 2:00am

Smither’s has footage.. He only have it 42seconds. Trackie!

ECHINACEA & EPO – case study results
Posted by: “Dr. Bill Misner Ph.D.” drbill@omnicast.net bikexrider
Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:29 pm (PST)
The results of case study of this previously discussed
topic are posted below:

BACKGROUND
Over a 12-year period, several endurance athletes complained
of low Red Blood Cell Counts, low Hematocrit, and low
Hemoglobin associated with over-reaching or extreme exercise
sessions. These complaints may be associated with hypervolemia,
excessive serum fluid volume response from repeated fluid loss
in evaporative perspiration. Diluting blood volume in
preparation for repeated fluid loss during prolonged exercise
may effect blood laboratory counts. Previously the endurance
list discussed Whitehead’s 2007 Echinacea herbal dose research,
which reported a 50% increase in circulating EPO following
3 weeks daily dose of 8 grams Echinacea purpurea daily for
3 weeks. Raising EPO should raise red blood cell count,
hematocrit, and hemoglobin with increased oxygen carrying
capacity. EPO and blood doping protocols are negatively
dangerous illicit performance-enhancing protocols that
should be avoided. If a herbal moiety dose raises EPO
within normal reference range, it is hypothesized that
this might be a dietary supplement protocol to offset
hypervolemia and its negative effects upon red blood
cell count, hematocrit, and hemoglobin in some endurance
athletes.

METHOD
Four Endurance Athletes on the endurance list set out
to test this protocol based on the hypothesis that EPO
increase would increase performance by increasing hematocrit
and the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood stream.
Two athletes dropped out of the study due to intolerances
to high dose of Echinacea (1600 mg taken 5 times daily).
Two athletes, a 40K time trial cyclist and mile runner
were able to consume this dose without side effect. Both
athletes posted blood lab values recorded prior and 6
weeks after trial dose.

RESULTS
Here are the results AFTER 6-week 8g/day echinacea
comparing performance and red blood morphology progression:

MEASURE -/+….#1………..#2
PERFORMANCE….-1.76% ……-5.78% (minus=performance gain)
HCT…………-8.74%…….+0.46%
HGB…………-6.7%……..-2.00%
RBC…………-10.14%……-1.62%

Key: #1- Cyclist time trial ; #2 – Runner – mile run time

CONCLUSION
Numerically, both athletes recorded performance bests with
8g/day echinacea dose, and the less the negative effects
on red blood morphology, the higher the percent of performance
gain. Based on 2 athletes in 2 different endurance sport
disciplines, this data is inconclusive due too few subjects
and too wide numerical spread. The mechanism by which both
athletes achieved performance bests is presently not known.

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