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I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson

Hello, and man, we're a little late on this one, but Nate you were off in Disneyland. I was

I'm sure we'll cover the effects of a week at Disneyland on your training in the in the next episode of the podcast

But this one is focused on Carson City off road and we're going to be accountable to all the things that we did

You'll get to hear how we did and also we're gonna share everything that we learned and and hopefully this can help you in your next race

So I guess a first things to recap if you haven't listened to or if you don't know what we're talking about here

Go back and you can listen to I believe it was episode 100 where we actually went through and did a detailed breakdown of how we were going to prepare for this

And you can see that episode and then you can listen to what actually went so I did a 50 mile version of this race

You two did a 35 mile version of this race the 50 mile was three laps the 35 was two laps

We started early in the day. We feared heat and heat was absolutely brutal. Isn't it?

Yeah, I it cooked me it was really rough. I ended up let's go over how we did first

My goal like my moonshot was four hours and 30 minutes and the winning time in mind

I think was 429

So I was pretty close to what I thought what it was going to take so I'm proud of that part, but I didn't finish there so

They I said I expected to be somewhere around for 445 to 515 and I ended up at 503

9th overall 6th in my division

Normalized power of only 191 watts that said something I should cover as I didn't zero my power meter and the other time before that

And I had zero my power meter. It was freezing cold

I just actually zeroed it on this this I guess just this weekend and it was a difference of nearly 30 watts

During my workout once I zeroed it so who knows where that normalized power

It actually let that be a lesson to if you don't zero your power meter good chance

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