December 2005
2 posts
six day recap
After the first night of the Burnaby Velodrome SixDay race, I downloaded my heart-rate data from my Polar 720 and saw that I had spent some 35 minutes in Zone 5, roughly defined as the heart rate Zone between 178 and 195 beats per minute (my max). This “red zone” is where I spent the majority of my evening racing and as I came home at 12:30 AM in the morning to wash my skinsuit, I knew...
six day racing
There’s always been an appeal to me in riding the 200m indoor velodrome in Burnaby. I got on the first time, was scared shitless, and by the third time riding there, I’d bought a full membership. My fifth night at the track, I’d bought a track bike. A year later I was VP of the facility, this year I managed to find myself as President. Don’t ask. But for an avid road...