2011's Races Aggregated

These are all the races I did in 2011, including results, links, etc.

Crits: 27
TTs: 6
RRs: 9
Circuit Races: 1
(Total Bike Races: 43)
5Ks: 3
Olympic Tris: 1
Relay Races: 1

Predators Fangtastic 5K, 2/12/11
23:27; 4 of 115 (AG); 16 of 515 (females); 79 of 946 (OA)

Tour de Tuscaloosa, 3/26-3/27/11
Crit: 13 of 16 (Cat 1/2/3)
RR: 12 of 22 (Cat 1/2/3)

Hell of the South, 4/02/11
RR: 9 of 17 (Cat 1/2/3/4)

Sunny King Crit, 4/09/11
Crit: 6 of 36 (Cat 3/4)

Foothills Road Race, 4/10/11
RR: 23 of 23 (Cat 1/2/3)

Team Belladium Cycling Camp
(4/16/10 thru 4/18/11)

Gatorade Crit, 5/08/11
Crit: 5 of 26 (Cat 3/4); 15 of 16 (Cat 1/2/3)

Rev3 Knoxville Olympic-distance Tri, 5/15/11
2:46:05, 4 of 15 (AG), 41 of 159 (females), 230 of 506 (OA); female winner: 2:03:00

TN State TT, 5/28/11
1:11:03, 20 of 27 (females); 103 of 119 (OA)
female winner: 1:03:39

MOAB Crit, 5/29/11
Crit: 4 of 9 (Cat 1/2/3)

PCB Omnium, 6/04-6/05/11
RR: 6 of 11 (1/2/3); 2:08:46; 18 of 33 (1/2/3/4)
TT: 11 of 12 (1/2/3) (3 miles; 7:49)
Crit: 17 of 33 (1/2/3/4); 13 of 16 (1/2/3)
Omnium: 9 of 12 (1/2/3)

Smith and Nephew Omnium, 6/18-6/19
Circuit Race: 17 of 22 (1/2/3)
TT: 13 of 20 (4 miles; 9:49.46)
State Crit: 12 of 26 (1/2/3)
Omnium: 10 of 18 (1/2/3)

Tour of America's Dairyland, 6/20-6/25
Greenbush RR, 6/20: 24 of 40 (Cat 3/4)
Schlitz Park Crit, 6/21: 13 of 28 (Cat 3/4)
Ripon TT, 6/22: 8 of 19 (25K, 41:48) (Cat 3/4)
Sheboygan Crit, 6/23: DNP (rain) (26 women)
Fond du Lac Crit, 6/24: DNF (got pulled) (69 women) (P/1/2/3)
Downer Crit, 6/25: 18 of 43 (Cat 3/4)

Maryland Farms Firecracker 5K, 7/04/11
23:10 (unregistered, thus unofficial); 4 of 56 (AG); 16 of 527 (females); 122 of 1,064 (OA)

ETJC State RR, 7/09/11
Road Race: 12 of 15 (1/2/3)

French Broad Cycling Classic, 7/15-7/17/11
TT: 13 of 16 (20K, 32:40; winner: 29:33) (1/2/3)
RR: 19 of 20 (1/2/3)
Crit: 6 of 22 (1st Cat 3) (1/2/3)

Oak Ridge Velo, 8/06-8/07
RR: DNF (1/2/3)
TT: 6 of 9 (7.8mi, 30:55; winner: 19:16) (1/2/3); 9 of 21 (1/2/3/4)
Crit: 1 of 9 (1/2/3)

Grant Park Crit, 8/21
Crit: 7 of 20 (3/4)

River Gorge Omnium, 8/27-8/28
TT: 18 of 37 (4mi, 9:58; winner: 9:24) (1/2/3/4); 14 of 18 (1/2/3)
Crit: 11 of 20 (1/2/3)
RR: 26 of 39 (1/2/3/4); 18 of 20 (1/2/3)

NashvilleCyclist.com Crit Series (summer)
5/11/11: 6 of 13 (1/2/3/4)
5/25/11: 6 of 11 (1/2/3/4)
7/03/11: 2 of 12 (1/2/3/4)
7/06/11: 1 of 12 (1/2/3/4)
7/13/11: 4 of 16 (1/2/3/4)
7/20/11: 3 of 15 (1/2/3/4)
7/27/11: 1 of 13 (1/2/3/4)
8/10/11: 3 of 11 (1/2/3/4)
8/17/11: 7 of 13 (1/2/3/4
8/20/11: 1 of 11 (1/2/3/4)
8/24/11: 8 of 18 (1/2/3/4)
Overall series: 3 of 32 (1/2/3/4)

Final TBRA Results

10 of 28 (in-state); 10 of 54 (inclusive)

Ragnar Relay, 11/04-11/05/11

29:12:02, 93 of 211 teams

25 of 105 Regular Mixed Open teams

Stuff and Puff 5K, 11/26/11

23:36; 3 of 8 (AG); x of (xx females); 36 of 120 (OA)

2011 to 2012

Kat's route included a few barriers :-)

Friday's ride

Friday I did not have to work, slept in, and rode 40 miles with Val, Parri, Anna, Emily, Amber, and Catherine. The day was absolutely gorgeous, and it was so nice to be outside riding at the end of December! For dinner, we ate at Porta Via in Cool Springs for Anna's birthday. It was a big group and I took a less than stellar photo. We had some pizza as an appetizer and I got a chicken caesar salad, with cinnamon gelato for dessert. I was less than impressed with pretty much everything and don't really need to go back there. The best part were Parri's birthday cupcakes, which went perfectly with the cinnamon ice cream.

Neil, Lynn, Kevin, and Anna are barely distinguishable
Not pictured: Val, Jeremy, Jonell, Todd, Kat, Jay, Parri, Shelly, and Dave

Saturday's ride (I skipped miles 39 - 58 and made my own route back)

Saturday I slept in a little, but we met earlier to get in a longer ride. Kat, Shelly, Val, Anna, Parri, and I started out with 6 guys and then broke off to do a bit of climbing. It was another amazingly beautiful day, and the 50 miles went by pretty quickly. After that, it was off to Anna S's house for lunch and a walk, to church, and then to the theater to watch Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol (sound warning!). This I was quite impressed with. I enjoyed the movie—it was very entertaining, it was well done, an the acting was pretty good. It was, of course, a bit sensational (that is, what would have killed normal people didn't kill the characters in this movie), but that was expected.

Someone else played coupon fairy and made me happy!

I went to Target to spend some of the gift card I'd gotten for Christmas, and someone had left coupons for the stuff I wanted—hooray!

Sunday was much less taxing. I ran only a couple easy miles and then spend most of the day with the family since my cousin is heading off to college tomorrow. I did have a list of things that I mostly accomplished in the little time I spent on them, so it ended up being a pretty good end of one year and start of another!

CompuTrainer Class: Aerobic Capacity II

This was our workout today in Todd's class. The scale might be a little off, but it otherwise looked like this.

Today went surprisingly better than I expected. I don't have stats because my Garmin's battery is currently dead, so when I have access to them I'll add them.

12-28-11
12-29-11

• 1:40:40 total, 158 HR avg (178 max)
  
• 10:05, 127 HR to warm up trainer
  
• 20:00, 160 HR; 3 min easy (162): warmup
  
• 4:00, 169 HR; 2 min easy (166): single-leg drills
  
• 11:00, 171 HR; 3 min easy (154): Tempo; I visualized the Chattanooga Crit course
  I visualized the Oak Ridge Crit course
• 11:00, 161 HR; 3 min easy (155): Tempo with single-leg drills in the valley
  
• 11:00, 173 HR; 3 min easy (156): Tempo; I visualized the second Brentwood Crit course
  I visualized the Downer/Milwaukee Crit course
• 11:00, 160 HR; 4 min easy (142): Tempo with single-leg drills in the valley
  
• 2:30, 165 HR: spin-up to 110 RPM for 90 sec
  
• 2:05, 165 HR: Cooldown plus sprint

Groceries?

Sometimes I wonder if you can call what I buy groceries. I don't usually buy much, and I buy seemingly random things. Today's quick trip to Kroger at lunch was pretty typical:

• Almond Breeze milk: free (was $3.59)
• Thin mints (2): $1.80 (was $2.78)
• Almonds (2): $1.78 (was $7.38)
• Veggies (3): $2.97 (was $6.00)
• Paid $6.60 (includes tax); saved $13.15 or 67%

The milk ended up being free because it rang up at this week's price and had last week's shelf tag advertising a different price (I took my receipt to the CS desk because I didn't want to deal with it while in line). The mints were on post-Christmas sale and are for my sister's birthday. The almonds were on super clearance and I had coupons. The veggies are necessities and were on manager's special (basically, their sell-by date is approaching).

CompuTrainer Class: Aerobic Capicity I

This was from my drive home yesterday--I'm glad I was on my side of the highway! When I got home, I ran 5 miles because I made 5 stops on my way. My original plan was to run a mile at each stop, but since it rained on me at every stop but the last, I just scrapped that plan and made a new one. It wasn't my best run, but it was a good one considering I'd just spent 12 hours in the car!

Driving west

This was our workout today in Todd's class. The scale might be a little off, but it otherwise looked like this.

12-28-11

• 1:40:40 total, 158 HR avg (178 max)
• 10:05, 127 HR to warm up trainer
• 20:00, 160 HR; 3 min easy (162): warmup
• 4:00, 169 HR; 2 min easy (166): single-leg drills
• 11:00, 171 HR; 3 min easy (154): Tempo; I visualized the Chattanooga Crit course
• 11:00, 161 HR; 3 min easy (155): Tempo with single-leg drills in the valley
• 11:00, 173 HR; 3 min easy (156): Tempo; I visualized the second Brentwood Crit course
• 11:00, 160 HR; 4 min easy (142): Tempo with single-leg drills in the valley
• 2:30, 165 HR: spin-up to 110 RPM for 90 sec
• 2:05, 165 HR: Cooldown plus sprint

I am quite sure I will feel the day-long drive + 5mi + 35mi all in 24h, but right now I feel pretty good!

Christmas

Christmas day, in no particular order:

Lots of (big) presents under the tree

Chilling with Caleb

Reading the Christmas story

Our stockings

A gift from Mom

A gift from R and J—haha!

A visor from Mom from their IM in the Phillippines

Jason's big gift

Under Armour cold gear—hooray and greatly needed!

Nap time for mom and baby

We opened gifts, ate some good food, took a walk, played games, watched Leverage, and chilled. I ran a few miles outside to test out my shirt, which is great, and stretched for a while—for some reason my muscles are feeling very tight and it's not fun.

Christmas Eve

Caleb sleeping

Christmas Eve dinner the Robin way: white foods :-)

Reading the Christmas story

Jason's stocking--Robin gets presents that are too big!

I ran and lifted this morning, then we had a good breakfast and went to downtown Bethlehem to visit a bookstore. We also played some games and read and chilled and ate birthday cake. I need as long a nap as Caleb took today!