Feb 19, 2025
Sebring 2025 - 24 hour Race Non-Drafting and Self-Supported -> Finished first 24 hour race for 2025 in Sebring. It was an interesting race and big kudus to the organizers for putting together a cool race. Participation was amazingly good. I fell a little bit behind my target miles but still ok with the overall result. Not trying to find excuses but had a few difficulties in the race. Flat front made me ride about 3.5 miles on flat front before I could swap the wheel. Unfortunate the real issues have been the shifter battery going dead after 21 hrs so the last 3 hours with issues almost riding like fixed gear. And had a long time a noise I could not identify. Learned afterwards that my rear wheel break disk came loose and went partial off. That shows with too heavy workload and zero crew support it requires a few more things for me to check in the future to avoid technical issues. And it shows that even if we have done some type of race that every race is different due to weather and technical challenges as well as our personal condition. So the statistic results ... 5th overall incl recumbent bikes and 4th without recumbent bikes counted in. 2nd overall in self supported racer group. 1st in my age group Its ok for season 2025 start. Ohh ... cool thing .. I seem to have been efficient in my self-support strategy .. out of 24 hours racing I had less than 15 minutes stop time in in the 24 hours. From those I could have cut off 3 minutes switching the front wheel. But looks like my stops to refill water and get sandwiches have been prepared ok.
Jan 21, 2025
Received a replacement bike (Madone Gen8 SLR) for the one I totaled due to an accident into a car last year Thanksgiving at end of my 7 day TT Record. I am very thankful for the local Cape Coral Trek store to help get me this bike and helped me covering a larger part of the cost. Did the setup ride last night and was impressed. Some minor adjustments and yes Seat is now again and Infinity Bike Seat since I do feel most comfortable with those on my rides. Was a bit worried about th size naming changes by Trek (they had the cm sizes before and now have M, ML, L ... So I went with ML as replacement for a 56 cm Madone. It fits perfectly well. The handle bar, Aerobars are no Trek since I could not go with the integrated handle bar. This bike is my key bike for ultra distance racing minor hills plus some stiff climbs. Looking forward to use art in training for the next weeks and its going to be a key bike for my Texas Race.
Jan 20, 2025
Tour de Cape Weekend - had a great time with a bit of 140 mile warmup ride on Saturday and the Tour de Cape ride (incl warmup and cooldown) on Sunday. Wind was very strong making it tough fight on the way back south. We had a very strong group of 6 riders OK .. not a race but as a team we made good effort to push as hard as it would be a race. Good way of training for the first races of season 2025.
Jan 13, 2025
PEDAL FOR A PURPOSE 2025 Team Goal Diggers We had a great team of strong cyclists for the event. Thanks to all 6 cyclists putting in a strong 4 hours of pushing on the stationary bikes. With overall 96.4 miles in 4 hours and average of 271 watts power we have been able to finish first place overall and set a new record. Big kudos to Team Chief Kayla Kozi and riders Ross Lenehan, Jay Trojan, Chris Scott, Bruce Lander and Dave Cato fighting this charity competition together with me. It was a very interesting event and I enjoyed it a lot even its different to what I normally do on a bicycle. to me its a great way to start calendar year 2025 for cycling. Big thanks myself to Heidi Marie Walker who keeps me motivated for new challenges and Giovanni Prosperi as my coach. #hammernutrition #infinitybikeseat with my code #ingolf676
Dec 31, 2024
Year 2024 is almost over and I am trying to look back a little bit. Looking at overall miles, and workout time ... OK numbers are down quite a bit but thats on purpose since quality comes over quantity. I was planning for about 18000 miles (28968 km) for 2024. OK .. it turned out to be total of 25500 miles (41000 km) overall cycling but ... over 7000 miles (11300 km) has been racing. So my training was limited to 18k miles (about 29k km) only. Nevertheless ... in the short time of cycling (since 2020) and even much shorter time of bicycle racing (since 2021 a few short races and since 2023 ultra-distance racing) it looks like a cool 2024 to me. I had some results which to me are unexpected and very motivating. My key results 2024 have been: - Winning Men's over all age groups at Texas Longhorn500 and seeing a new age record for 60-69 - a cool 2nd place at Florida500 over all age groups - Winning age group 12 hours at Bid-Atlantic and 4th overall (incl recumbent bicycles) - winning overall agenda and age groups and new track record at 48 hour race in North Carolina (Psycho48) However my biggest accomplishments of the year are the completion of RAAM solo ... ok only 11th overall and 2nd at age group but crossing finish line in time was the most important thing to me. And at Thanksgiving weekend placing a new World Record for 60-69 non-drafting and most important self-supported 7 day time trial with 1858 miles (2990 km). In addition I had a few cool results at some other races such as the Gran-Fondo race series and lots of fun in some non race related rides with different distances. I hope to take some of the momentum into 2025 while I will try a bit different approach for the main races that I scheduled. Key to me is that job comes first and it's not easy having a regular job and doing all the training and racing in addition. It's lots of compromises on the possible trading schedule but job has priority. Thats why I am happy I was able to get a few cool results in for the year and as long as health plays along ok I am planning to see how well I compete within my age group and more important across all age groups. If time and budget allows I would be most happy to attend the one or other one race out of country. I hope that might be possible but I have to keep a close eye on budget for such travel and race cost. Some pictures are from the races and training as well as a few screen prints from Strava. Special thanks to my crew chief Heidi Maldonado who never let me down and was a great motivation and support factor in training and racing as well as my coach Giovanni Prosperi who believes in me and helped me getting all those cool results even at age 60 🙂 #hammernutrition #infinitybikeseat -> #ingolf676
