Hale Farm Circuit Race

This morning was the Hale Farm circuit race hosted by Allied Decals. I was joined by teammates Carl Peshoff, Tim and Samantha House, Marshall Leininger, Frank Kolasa, Darrin Kert and Jim Flesher in the 'B' field. It always surprises me that this race is never heavily attended as it's on a great course with lightly traveled traffic and it only costs $5, what could be better? Nevertheless, there was a nice group of around 25 riders, mostly consisting of my teammates and Allied Decals who rolled out of the parking lot from Old Trail School to undergo 25 miles of suffering. The race was fairly uneventful for the first lap and a half with a few breakaway attempts, none of them sticking as A/D was chasing them down, even when they had teammates up there. On the second lap I made a jump on the small hill on Riverview. It was one of those moves that was done half-heartedly because I really only wanted to pick things up and not get away but when I saw I had a sizeable gap I decided to give it a go. Thanks to my teammates for blocking for me because I'm sure I couldn't have been out there that long without you. I was solo for almost 3/4 of a lap, but when I saw the field slowly reeling me back in I decided to ease up and get ready for the counter attack. I think I should have been able to hang out there for the remainder of the race, but my sustainable power seems to be lacking a little bit right now. I guess it's time to hit those 2x20's again and ease up on the ice cream and cookies.
The counter attack came as expected and I was glad to see it was one of my teammates, Darrin who led it. There's nothing more rewarding than seeing one of your teammates capitalize on the hard work that you just did. Darrin was more fortunate than I since his move brought an Allied Decal rider with him which he was able to drop him further into the race and ended up soloing in for the win. As for the rest of the team, we controlled the race very well, successfully shutting down any attempts at bring the break back or guys bridging. A congratulations should be given to Marshall who is an absolute animal in the field. I would venture a guess that he pulled the field around for 80% of the race, no questions asked, definitely the hardest working guy out there today.

brian

Here's the stats on the race:

Duration: 1:15:02
Work: 1048 kJ
TSS: 114.4 (intensity factor 0.956)
Norm Power: 287
Distance: 28.346 mi
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 941 233 watts
Heart Rate: 74 191 167 bpm
Cadence: 29 141 96 rpm
Speed: 2.7 35.1 22.7 mph
Torque: 0 376 72 lb-in