Feb 13, 2012

Watt a race!

First Blood to BKB and Teter as they win the Plug-in challenge! Not sure I understand the nature of the event from the IDS description but a win is a win!
IDS article

34 comments:

Todd said...

So it was four 18 minute ITTs per team? Later the article says 20 minute team effort. I'm with GP that I can't tell how this really worked.

adamrodkey said...

"In 18 minutes, each team produced an average of 180 watts."
the article breaks the "training w/ power code" of never announcing your numbers.

Anonymous said...

Combined they did a total of 18 minutes I think including exchanges. The other bikes were not included in the race, just recording the sustained energy? They each did like 4 minutes and 15-30 seconds with exchanges counting as time and power.

Todd said...

So 180 watt average for 18 minutes? That doesn't seem right.

Anonymous said...

The measurement was Avg Watts of the combined team in an 18 minute "race simulation" that constituted exchanges.
The men avg was in order: BKB 390, DTD 373, SigEp 358, Beta Sigma Ep 353, AEPi 347, Phi Psi 335, SAE 335, Delta Chi 315, Forest 309, Wright 304, Lambda Chi 291
The women: Teter 261, DG 243, RideOn 227, Rainbow 221, Army 207, KD 206, Collins 192, ADPi 135.

Todd said...

Ok that makes more sense.

Anonymous said...

Not a great measure since it gives larger riders a huge advantage. Watts/kg would have been better. Interesting challenge tho.

Anonymous said...

Are you calling BKB fat?

Todd said...

Sigma Chi and Phi Delts - What do you guys think you could put out?

Anonymous said...

BKB's total weight: 837 lbs

Anonymous said...

May be a dumb question, but why would a power / weight ratio be important on a flat course?

Todd said...

Bigger guy is going to push bigger watts at same speed because of weight and wind resistance. My training partner is an inch taller and 10 lbs heavier. On flat, he is generally 10 watts higher at same speed.

Anonymous said...

because it still takes more watts to move a heavier object, also taking into account aerodynamic drag. from the scholars at wikipedia:

175 W for a 90 kg bike + rider to go 9 m/s (20 mph or 32 km/h) on the flats (76% of effort to overcome aerodynamic drag)

compared to

165 W for a 65 kg bike + rider to go 9 m/s (20 mph or 32 km/h) on the flats (82% of effort to overcome aerodynamic drag)

Rick Van Kooten said...

If we are going get all geeky, then if this a demonstration of energy sustainability, they should be quoting total energy as Joules, not Watts - power is the rate of energy per second, although power is definitely a more useful measure for a cyclist.

The more familiar term of energy would be the kind-of dopey unit of kW-hr.

- CvK's Dad Go Teter!

Anonymous said...

"The men avg was in order: BKB 390, DTD 373, SigEp 358, Beta Sigma Ep 353, AEPi 347, Phi Psi 335, SAE 335, Delta Chi 315, Forest 309, Wright 304, Lambda Chi 291"

you forgot cutters at 666watts.

Anonymous said...

Rex Rafferty is easily the fattest kid on the track. I feel bad for the bike he has to ride. #farm

Anonymous said...

BKB= Burger King Boyz

Anonymous said...

Bigger than Hank? Doubtful I heard he once ate 3 big uglies at bubs?

Anonymous said...

Cutters 450
PDT 440
Sigma Chi 430

and then everyone else.

Anonymous said...

Sigma Chi 469
Cutters 468
PDT 430

Anonymous said...

http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/02/news/farm-team-joining-the-pros_206231

farm team P-R-O

Anonymous said...

I heard Rafferty ate one of the BKB rookies...

Anonymous said...

There's not much talk of cutters on here, thus not much talk at all.

Anonymous said...

Not much talk about the cutters because they aren't going to win the race this year.

Todd said...

I'll take that bet.

Anonymous said...

Did Chris West tell Clayton and Eric how to get a few more years of eligibility? That's the only way I see them crossing the line less than 5 laps down.

Anon Asshole

Anonymous said...

then you will lose money todd

Todd said...

Nope, because right now I have both sides of the bet covered. On one side I have the Cutters winning (pretty good odds). On the other side, if another team wins, I know you're too big a pussy to actual sign your name to this (even better odds which is saying a lot) so I'm not out of the money. Almost no downside based on the odds.

Anonymous said...

Oh todd... you poor over confident man. I guarantee the cutters don't win this race. And I would be careful who you are calling a pussy.

Anonymous said...

Watch out guys, we're dealing with a badass over here.

Todd said...

There's no other name assigned to you, so I'll stick with it.

As for over-confidence, read my post carefully.

Anonymous said...

Hey guys I'm really starting to take offense to this fat thing. Quit it! I know I'm a tad heavier than most on the scale but I'm big boned and I like Jiffy Treat so get off my jock.

- Rex

Anonymous said...

Fat fat fat fat fatty fat. Give me some breakfast bake!

Anonymous said...

I'm calling a bs on anon 1:14. unless Sig Chi found two more bigger dudes.

Tim