5th Place. Time: 3:55 (official); 3:50 (according to my power file). Avg watts: 426. I think there was a problem with the timers. I’m not the only one who had a somewhat major discrepancy with the “official” time (taken with stopwatches) and what the power file said. I know that there can be small differences when you’ve got humans clicking stopwatches, but a 5-second difference over such a short effort seems rather odd.
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GamJams wrote @ August 17th, 2009 at 9:41 am
There was nothing wrong with the race timing. I think you actually started 5 seconds before this powerfile begins. I did this race last year, and my heart jumped out of my chest within 3 seconds. Similar conditions would explain your flat red line at the bottom. If the powerfile showed the initial 5 seconds you would see the red line spike from 60bpm to 199, then drop precipitously to the 0 you’re showing here.
brian wrote @ August 17th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Mike, I didn’t have a heart rate strap on, which explains the flat red line. Nothing wrong there. Also, as I said, I know of one other person who had an even larger discrepancy than me.
dennis wrote @ August 17th, 2009 at 10:19 am
In the cat 4s, a bunch of us thought they were off by about 2seconds. Doesn’t matter much if that was a synch-problem between start and finish.. Good side is, you’ll have a great time next year, improving by 5 seconds or more!
Alex wrote @ August 19th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Fantastic photo!
brian wrote @ August 19th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Courtesy of my friend Mary’s (@maryvale) iPhone.
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