Monday morning stats

Tsugaike 2008, best time

Body weight:

After Andrew’s “skinny” comments yesterday, I decided to jump on the scales this morning. 75.5 kg. That’s a great weight for me. I don’t get to see it too often these days. I haven’t paid much attention to diet but some good training seems to have paid off.

Tsugaike times:

It seems there is no afternoon time trial at Tsugaike this year. That’s one of the main reasons for going really. Instead it will be simple hill climb.

Time to review the times

2006 Stage 1 59:49.6 (130) / Stage 2 DNQ
2007 Stage 1 56:01.9 (73) / Stage 2 43:15.5 (92) / Overall 1:39:17.4 (90)
2008 Stage 1 54:39.2 (43) / Stage 2 43:44.5 (90) / Overall 1:38:23.7 (66)
2009 Stage 1 55:51 (54) / Stage 2 43:08 (88) / Overall 1:39:00 (77)
2010 Stage 1 + 2 total 1:40:08

Bike weights:
Recently I’ve been using my VITUS bike almost exclusively. Yesterday, I dusted off my carbon bike. It’s 750 grams lighter, but the question is does it perform better on the climbs?

vitus bike, mavic cosmic carbone wheels 8910g
carbon bike, mavic cosmic carbone wheels 8160g

What's 750 grams?

My best time at Tsugaike was done on my VITUS bike in 2008 (all other attempts were done on a carbon bike). However, I consider this to be my vintage year on the bike. Also I had Arthur pace me up most of the climb too.

Which bike to use???? Oh the dilemmas we cyclists face!