I’ve been feeling good these days as a result of I’ve been doing nicely in my age group on some native Strava Koms. However earlier than my head will get too huge I believed I’d put issues in perspective. To begin with, these are all flat routes so don’t actually deserve the title “king of the mountains”. King of the flats, or KOFs, possibly?

Second, I wished to see how my occasions evaluate towards elite athletes in my age group. So I seemed up the occasions in nationwide time trials, placed on by the Nationwide Senior Video games Affiliation within the US, with related teams protecting us growing older athletes challenged around the globe. As of 2019, the 10K report within the 70-74 age group was a time of 14:00 minutes, which is a median of about 26.6 mph. If I work actually exhausting at it, I can get my common a bit above 20 mph. That might make me a champion within the 90-94 age group (for which the report is 21:57, or about 17 mph). So to be an elite athlete I’d must get quite a bit quicker now, or not decelerate any for the following 20 years. I nonetheless really feel fairly good about doing decently in my native space in my age group. However my hat is off to all of the actually quick older women and men on the market.

I feel essentially the most astonishing report I got here throughout was 80 yr outdated Guiseppe Marioni’s 80-84 hour report. He went 24.24 miles in an hour on a velodrome.

Guiseppi owns Cycles Marinoni in Montreal, Quebec. I’d love to go to Montreal and pay his store a go to.

I’ve competed within the native Bay Space Senior Video games up to now in each the 5K and 10K time trials. So studying up on these data gave me the concept that it will be good to have native 5K and 10K segments on Strava. A lot of the native time trial segments are level to level, sadly. It’s higher to have an out and again or loop course so the wind doesn’t consider. So I mapped out a 5K and a 10K route in San Martin, the little city to the south of us. The roads there are splendid as a result of they kind an excellent grid and are flippantly trafficked. Right here is the 5K route:

And right here is the 10K. I couldn’t provide you with a easy loop that was precisely 10K so I did an out and again with a loop for a tail:

I’ll strive the 5K out on our subsequent sunny day (thursday) and the 10K within the close to future.