Tour de Buzz Results

The 1st "Tour de Buzz" - Indoor Bike Race took place Saturday, Feb 21st at Elite Cycling. The event consisted of a series of heats (one every hour from 9a to 3p) of up to eight athletes riding their bikes mounted on Computrainers. After a warm up and calibration the riders raced head to head for 30 minutes on a simulated course which included a 6% climb right in the middle and had them finishing going uphill.
Feedback from participants of all abilities was very positive.  Many people commented that they were able to push themselves harder in the group setting than they ever could on their own.

Big "Thank You!" to all the participants as well as Elite Cycling and KC Multisport for their support of this inaugural event. 

Results were calculated in two ways, total distance covered and watts per KG.

Congratulations to our two 1st Place Winners for distance - Jeff Sturd and Kalletta Caldwell. 3rd and 4th Prizes go to Tyler Staples and Pete Davis.

First name	Last name	Watts	Watts/KG	Distance	Distance Ranking	Watts/KG Ranking
Jeff	Sturd	299	3.208	10.10	1	2
Kalletta	Caldwell	261	3.405	10.07	2	1
Tyler	Staples	281	3.052	9.75	3	4
Pete	Davis	264	3.112	9.38	4	3
Nic	Zweifel	266	2.889	9.27	5	5
Joel	Hammontree	268	2.626	8.85	6	16
Drew	Hull	266	2.642	8.83	7	15
Allison	Adams	228	2.881	8.64	8	6
Corey	Priest	244	2.683	8.63	9	10
Kirk	Decker	221	2.677	8.63	10	11
Ivan	Pancic	288	2.480	8.63	11	18
Mark	Burghart	247	2.669	8.60	12	13
Kieth	Ramick	215	2.670	8.55	13	12
Jeff	Tignor	256	2.662	8.52	14	14
Annie	Altorfer	193	2.818	8.47	15	7
Scott	Bowling	265	2.705	8.45	16	9
Monty	Stanley	236	2.507	8.41	17	17
Joji	Calabro	209	2.793	8.27	18	8
Kevin	Berger	228	2.440	8.25	19	19
Kurt	Niemackl	234	2.303	8.25	20	21
Tina	Fleecs	183	2.299	8.08	21	22
Randy	Treas	197	2.193	8.00	22	25
Spencer	Day	198	2.244	7.98	24	23
Chuck	Fredricks	255	1.966	7.98	23	28
Leslie	Treas	181	2.418	7.95	25	20
David	Ochoa	239	2.038	7.93	26	27
Bart	Allen	182	2.140	7.70	27	26
Lisa	Zimmerman	152	2.197	7.61	28	24
Natasha	Bangel	164	1.954	7.51	29	29
Robert	Jones	214	1.581	7.43	30	35
Lance	Carey	165	1.740	7.42	31	30
Arthur	Berger	146	1.685	7.09	32	31
Aaron	Kabler	167	1.655	7.02	33	32
Angie	Diaz	132	1.635	6.96	34	33
Lynda	Rodriguez	116	1.588	6.70	35	34

Downtown Airport Time Trial #4 - July 1st

Results from the latest Time Trial. We had lots of PRs and great performances. Two new winners, Josh Wolf and Kelly Dippold.
Thanks to everyone for coming.

Name	Time
Josh Wolf	25:28
Mark Burghart	26:13
Jeff Sturd	26:13
Justin Estes	26:17
Kelly Dippold	26:27
Scott Bowling	26:30
Jim Nicolas	27:14
Matt Robinson	27:48
Drew Hull	28:05
Monty R Stanley	28:28
Amy Cotter-Brown	30:22
Becky Henning	31:39
Doug Bordegon	32:49
Rob Jones	34:10
Doug Baldwin	34:20
Rex Groves	36:14
Colleen Janner	48:11

Next Time Trial will be Wednesday, August 6th at 6:45p (no Canadian beer this time).  To be part of the Time Trial go the Midwest Triathlon Coaching Facebook page and "Join" the Event. - www.facebook.com/mwtricoach

Downtown Airport Time Trial #2

Riders attending the 2nd event of the Downtown Airport Time Trial Series faced much warmer temperatures and a stronger wind blowing from the south but we had lots of great performances and a good time was had by all.

Champion this month was Mark "Blue Springs Express" Carey and Annie "Check Out My New Wheels" Altorfer.

Overall results for three laps with a rolling start were:

1	Mark Carey	24:23
2	Scott Bolen	25:28
3	Anthony Lee	25:58
4	Caleb Teague	26:24
5	Jeff Sturd	26:32
6	Mark Burghart	26:44
7	Jake Bond	26:48
8	Scott Bowling	26:59
9	Brett Agee	27:06
10	Ivan Pancic	27:09
11	Justin Estes	27:16
12	David Schiffer	28:45
13	Pete Davis	28:46
14	Annie Altorfer	28:51
15	Ryan Lewis	29:18
16	Kyle Belew	29:20
17	R Michael Herrman	31:40
18	Brandon Skaggs	32:04
19	Donny Danner	32:24
20	Beth Shull	34:25
21	Michelle Washburn	35:10
22	Michael Conley Weatherly	36:50
23	Lori Terzopoulos	38:53

Bit of a change from our "First Tuesday of the Month" routine as the next event in the Series will be Thursday, May 29th. There is no fee to participate and you don't have to be affiliated with Midwest Triathlon Coaching (though we'd love it if you were).  We do ask athletes to "Join" the Event on Facebook so we know you are coming.

Garmin Settings?

Checking out the Garmin while running at IM Louisville.

I had an athlete recently ask what he should have displayed on his Garmin Forerunner 910xt.  Thought it was a good question, so wanted to share the answer here as well.
As a bit of background info I have been using Garmin products since the first Forerunner 101 came out.  Back then it was strapped to one wrist while my old HRM was strapped to the other (I looked like a dork...) I am not as much of an expert as DC Rainmaker (a blog I highly recommend you check out if you are interested in the technology of triathlon training) but I enjoy learning about new technology and how devices can help me and my athletes with our training.
I am currently using the Garmin Edge 500 as my primary computer on the bike and love using the Garmin Forerunner 910xt while swimming and running.  I have the Garmin cadence/speed sensor on my road bike, though on the tri bike cadence comes from my Quarq powermeter.  I've recently added the foot pod sensor for running as well. At races last summer I had the 910xt running in multisport mode for the whole race. I would be totally lost without my Garmin devices, don't know how anyone could make good decisions to race effectively without them.

As for what to "watch on the watch", it is all personal preference and some are a bit obvious but the ones I strongly recommend are in bold -


Bike 
Screen 1 - 3” Avg Watts, HR Zn, Cadence, Speed; 
Screen 2 - Total Distance, Lap Avg Speed (I auto-lap every 10-15 miles), Total avg speed, Total Time, Normalize Power Lap
Screen 3 - Time of Day, Calories burned, Temperature


Run
Screen 1 - Lap Distance (I auto-lap every mile), HR Zn, Lap Pace, Lap Cadence
Screen 2 - Total Time, Total Distance, Total Avg Pace, Total Average Cadence
Screen 3 - time of day, Training Effect, Calories burned.

When I go to a hilly place like Colorado I will add elevation to the bike settings.  When I was riding last summer in KY and in Maryland I added elevation gained to my third bike screen just for curiosity, but around Kansas City I find its sort of mute, at least until I get home and upload the file.
I have my devices set to Auto-pause while I'm training but on race day I obviously turn that feature off.
Please feel free to add a comment below if you have other suggestions regarding setup, always open to ideas.

Scott PR's at Louisville Marathon

The PRs just keep falling!  Congratulations to Scott Bowling on his Boston Qualifying run at the Louisville Marathon yesterday as he took 21 minutes off his previous best effort. Huge!!
To read more about Scott and his journey click the Scotty Tris link on right.
Thank you to everyone who came out to Lees Summit R-7 Aquatic Center to swim, bike and run.  Great session, hope you liked to route.

Group Ride 4-19-14

Here is the route for our ride from Lees Summit R-7 Aquatic Center.  I have ridden all these roads and I think you will like the route.  You should also access this at mapmyride.com so you can download it to your phone for navigation purposes. Here's the link - MTC Grp Ride 4/19/14

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Downtown Airport Time Trial #1

April 1st was more than "Fools Day", it was also the semi-official kick off of the MTC Downtown Airport Time Trial Series.  We have done events at the Airport for years but this season we are going to make it an on-going series, on the First Tuesday of each month.

Thank you to everyone who participated.  I also appreciate those who spread the word about the ride via social media and/or invited friends to come along as well.

The next "public" event on the MTC training calendar is the Kansas 70.3 Training Camp May 2-4.  

The next Time Trial will be May 6th.  To register just "Join" the event on Facebook

Congratulations to our Men's winner - Aleks "the Flying Serb" Tasic and our Women's leader, Sara "I Just Chicked You" Prince.

The overall results for three laps with a rolling start were:

1	Aleks Tasic	26:16
2	Mark Carey	26:42
3	Preston W	26:56
4	Brandon Simpson	27:22
5	Reece Robinson	27:33
6	Justin Estes	27:37
7	Jeff Sturd	27:49
8	Scott Bolen	27:50
9	Caleb Teague	27:52
10	Riley Freeman	28:06
11	Peter Paulin	28:07
12	Scott Bowling	28:24
13	Mark Burghart	28:58
14	Sara Prince	29:26
15	Todd Dicus	29:32
16	Danny Loental	30:06
17	Rafael Frontaura	30:07
18	Monty Stanley	30:08
19	Greg Clum	30:22
20	Nathan Goodnight	30:22
21	Jeff Remsburg	30:49
22	Pete Davis	30:55
23	Lew Vandover	31:53
24	Kim Uhrich	31:55
25	Becky Ingold Henning	33:43
26	Beth Shull	36:17
27	Alan Gore	Flat
28	Chris Dyroff	Flat