David Singlespeed Unrau

Well, this was my shortest Paris to Ancaster race so far. The weather was perfect – sunny, a high of around 24 and a light tailwind that strengthened througout the day. I was racing on my cross bike, singlespeed (42:16), with Michelin Jet tires. The set up was pretty good. A gear harder might have been better, but its hard to tell. After a very fast start, I tryed to stay with Andrew, who was also on a singlespeed CX bike, but with a 44:16 gear. On the opening rail trail I couldn’t match his speed and dropped back to work with some of the other True North riders. I worked with Adam for a while, but the initial effort had put me in a bit of a deficit, and I had to sit up for a while. One hour in I was feeling good and working to move back up. Coming through a rail trail section I picked up a stick in the spokes that ended up wrapped around the hub, not really touching anything. I kept going to the next section and was fiddling with the stick while moving when ‘crunch’, the back wheel locks up. I skid to a halt and dismount to clear out the stick. Unfortunately, the stick took out 4 spokes and the wheel was locked because it was so far out it was jammed against the frame….and that was it for my race. Fortunately Poosie got the word through the grape vine that I was on the side of the road, because next thing I know she showed up in the truck to shuttle me to the finish in air conditioned comfort! Here is the route of the first half of the race:

Here is what the profile looked like:

…and here is what my heartrate looked like while the race lasted:

For the first 20 minutes or so its pegged at around 182 or so, which is a little too high for this early in the season!

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