Solvang Camp, day four

More good times and the TT is always my favorite. Today we rode the Tour of California Solvang TT course twice - once to preview and once to race. I had to handle logistics, and could not actually race, but I did get a nice 5-minutes at threshold to get to the corner I had to patrol. We could not have done it without help from Robb Z of Saris and Jim's wife Meike. Robb and I rode sweep and that made about 50 easy kilometers for us on the day.

The Quarq files are looking near perfect and I suspect they will be once Garmin sorts out how to actually put the heart rate data in a configuration which WKO+ can actually read. Right now I see HR data on the screen, but when we go to download it there is nothing. It does get pulled into other sorts of files, though, so we know it is there. We also updated both the Quarq firmware and my Garmin’s firmware and now the spikes in data have been completely eliminated and the numbers look great.  Here is a nice Quarq spy photo:

Tonight I ran into two of my favorite Portlanders in the hotel pub - Mark and Dave of River City Bicycles. They are here for some riding and the ToC and, no doubt, to cause all sorts of other trouble! I hope I run into them again tomorrow.

Tomorrow we enjoy the ToC time trial and then perhaps a nice easy ride in the country before a monster 160Km to end the camp with on Saturday.