Data Mining

I'm not the most diligent miner of my own data, but since a supersecret conglomerate of Sprint-Blackwater-Nike-PepsiCo, consulting with Dick Cheney, is already doing so in the bowels of the information Mordor, I figured I'd see what my numbers could tell me.  

Mostly, not much:

That looks about like my cycling routines over the last month or so:  big peaks when I steal away a day or two of riding, and lulls where I'm doing more working than pedaling.  But every once in a while, something interesting shows up:

I flatter myself to think that this might be one of the few blogs that would turn up results on the google searches for:

1) "hill repeats for battenkill"
2) "Joe Martin Stage Race power profile," and
3) "wheel recommendation for rouge roubaix."

So, intrepid (and geographically confused) googler, the answers are:

1)  A lot (my favorites were 9-12 x 90 seconds seated, sprint at the end)
2)  Tougher than you think for the first stage, and easier than you think for the rest, until the final sprint of the crit; and
3)  I've really enjoyed my HED Ardennes--light, but alloy for increased durability in crappy-surface races, wide rims are nominally aero with 23mm tires, and they are quite comfortable accepting my favorite crap-surface racing tires, Vittoria Pave 25s.  Although I did see a lot of carbon deep-dish wheels there, which (if they can carry you through the rough stuff) must be nice on the long miles between dirt sections, especially in a break.

Now, back to killing some leftover turkey and dreaming about the race-season trifecta of Rouge Roubaix, Battenkill, and Joe Martin.  After working off some of these holiday pounds.