| Title: | Bicycling |
| Notice: | Bicycling for Fun |
| Moderator: | JAMIN::WASSER |
| Created: | Mon Apr 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Did anyone do the Nashua Mine Falls race this weekend. It was the 4K
run, 20K MT Bike and 4K run. The reason I'm asking is that I was
planning on doing it but didn't at the last minute. I got a map of the
trail which consisted of a large loop (4.6 miles) a small loop (2.0
miles) and a path into and out of the transition area (.6 miles). I heard
that the bike part was 3 loops but I'm guessing that it was two large
loops and 1 small loop because 3 large would be 2 miles to long, two
large and 1 small is a bit short.
The reason for asking all this is I'm trying to get an idea of how I
would have done. If it was 2 large loops and 1 small then I was in ok
shape, the winner did the race in about 1:15 and I would have been
about +1:20 but 3 long loops and I would have been about 20 minutes behind
the winner.
Thanks for any input
Alan
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| 2687.1 | BLUMON::MORIARTY | Mon Oct 04 1993 18:31 | 14 | ||
The Mine Falls race consisted of a small loop of ~2.5 for each of the
runs, and three laps of the larger loop for the bike. The cyclist only
used the paths to the start/finish area once, not on each of the three
laps. Therefore what appears on the map to be a loop of 4.6 miles
is the correct total loop - but was ridden sort of like 4.3, 4.0, and
4.3.
The small loop was for the run only.
The winner did the bike leg in about 46 minutes. The fastest cyclist
was probably my mixed team partner who did it in 44 minutes, with a
cyclocross bike, not a mountain bike.
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| 2687.2 | That's how I measured it. | NQOPS::THIBODEAU | Tue Oct 05 1993 09:25 | 12 | |
I didn't count the tar path into and out of the transition area as part
of the 4.6, I did the large loop from the spot where you would take a
right off the tar all the way around back to that spot and got 4.6 on
my computer, from past comparisons with my truck if anything my comuter
is a little short not long. So if the bike ride was 3 large loops then
the total mileage was 14.4 miles for the bike (3 loops @ 4.6 and doing
the transition loop once for .6)
All I can say is I'm even more impressed by the 1 hr. and 15 minutes
winning time.
Alan
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