Tri vs Cycling Time Trial

Today was a big day for the future of cycling at UCSD. The prospect of a Triathlon/Cycling team showdown had been discussed but never come to fruition…until today.

There had been some trash talk in the form of Facebook 'Wall' postings and jabs in the bike shop, but there was a good-natured vibe in the morning when we met at the shop to do a group ride down to Mission Bay. We did a lap, or two, ok three...around Fiesta trying to find a safe place to set up a start/finish line. After some illegal maneuvers on the one-way road, everyone safely grouped up. We sent people off on a 30 second interval, and everyone did 3 big loops of the island making for a 20K course, finishing on a slight uphill right by the start. We scored 7 deep.

Results are below:

1. Zack Simkover...... 27:24 Bike (alumni)
2. Alex Jarman......... 28:31 Bike
3. Colter Cederlof...... 29:29 Bike
4. Chris Burnham...... 29:51 TRI (alumni)
5. Frank Uyeda......... 30:09 TRI
6. Trevor Haag.......... 30:56 Bike
7. Justin Arnold......... 31:14 TRI
8. Jeff Kidder............ 31:22 Bike
9. John Burke............ 31:23 TRI
10. Marc Schommer.... 32:10 TRI
11. Ben Migliori.......... 32:42 TRI
12. Adam Strobl......... 32:52 TRI
13. Tim Machado........ 33:47 TRI
14. Josh Egbert.......... 34:04 Bike
15. Sante Kotturi........ 34:21 TRI
16. Blair Ryan............ 35:11 TRI
17. Tammy Wildgoose...35:19 Bike
18. Ben Reiter.............35:33 Bike
19. Ty Kubart............. 36:25 TRI
20. Bethany Sotak...... 37:20 TRI
21. Phil Bush............. 38:08 Bike
22. Garlen Yu............ 39:00 TRI
23. Allen Chan........... 42:35 TRI
24. Amanda Smith..... 43:43 TRI
TEAM SCORES:
Bike: (1,2,3,6,8,14,17)=51
Tri: (4,5,7,9,10,11,12)=58

Hard to beat a 1,2,3 sweep...

However, had we taken alumni out of the scoring, we would have won 53:56, and if we had scored 10 deep we would have won aswell.

Thanks to Robert Carr of the cycling team for making this race happen. Maybe it can be an annual thing now, and hopefully our teams will get together more in the future.

Photos coming soon.

Bloodsugars:
Fasting:164
Breakfast carbs:60gs
Breakfast coverage:1.0 unit
post warm up:256
ate 20gs and took: 2.0 units
pre Time Trial:289
bolus:0.5 on start line
Post time trial (35:11 minutes):152
Ate a banana: no bolus
Post ride home:91

I should have covered breakfast with more, but I didn't anticipate standing around at the bike shop after only 15 minutes of riding. That must have hindered the 1.0 working on the breakfast. By the time we were riding it had already gone up too much. The combination of correction and food between warm up and when I raced (I stood around for 35 minutes timing everyone else before I went) worked as well as I could have hoped.