Did You Make It Into Leadville? Read On
10 Feb
As some of you know I did a lot of analysis of previous year's data (that I could find) from Leadville 100 MTB races. I've been looking for some new fun stuff to try in my efforts, so I thought I'd do a couple of things. First, I've set up a simple Google Form to allow anyone that wants to add their info into the form (all fairly benign data and definitely not to be used for any spammy BS). If you'll enter your data, I'll map it to a Google Map that should give you the ability to start to see who is in your area for training, support or questions. This, of course, doesn't negate the great value from the historical information on this group or the information sharing that will surely start today through early August. You can find the form here: http://bit.ly/9WodRs (Shortened URL to help keep it manageable--Google's URL is ridiculous.) If you add your email address (not required) I'll send you a link to the map once I get it integrated to Google Maps (need data first). Hopefully this will help to normalize some of the data that's out there and also allow for some increased quality in training and camaraderie. Second, there's a ton of data that swarms an event like this. Both before, during and after. The medical folks from the University collected a lot of data last year. I never saw the aggregate output, but I sure would have liked to. So for those of that do sign into the form, I'd like the option to be able to send you another link at some point in time to help me collect some info. I'll never publish individually identifiable data, and no names will be collected, but I'd like to collect, analyze and publish some of the more interesting data if the group's up for it. Totally open for suggestions here as this is "side of desk" work for me, but I'd like to see some more quantified info come out of 2010. If you'd like to get in touch with me personally, please feel free to reply here or shoot me a message on twitter @degroodt. Good luck to all that made the first hurdle. See you in Leadville (one way or another).
Nice job, so what is your interest in Leadville besides riding? I do like what you are capturing, just curious.
Serge
Thanks for the comment Sergio–and for registering on the map. I’ll add your info when I next update this Friday. No interest beyond being fascinated with the vast amount of data that’s available for something like this event (or any other similar style race). There’s a story in this information. If revealing it and sharing it helps another cyclist/athlete then I’m all the happier to do it. See you in Leadville!