My first race since switching to powercranks was a mountainbike event held in very muddy conditions last weekend. My mountainbike is equiped with regular cranks (I wouldn´t recommend riding powercranks off road. I haven´t tried it, but I don´t think it will be pretty!) so I had to imagine that I was in PC mode. I tried to tell myself to not just push, but also pull. I realised that when I was aware of using my hip flexors in the pull phase the speed rose significantly. And the best thing about it: I was able to do it throughout the entire 1h30´ the event lasted.
Actually the best thing was that I won, but I´m still a fair bit from the level I want to be at when the racing gets serious in the beginning of april. There are still lots of PC-rides to be explored. Maybe I´ll challenge myself one day and go off road......
Age:31 Country: Denmark Duathlete and mountain biker Athletic background: triathlete from age 15 and turned to mountainbiking at age 22. Picked up running again last year and deviding time between multisport and mtb. National mtb team member 2003-2006 Bronze medalist at MTB nationals 2003 Running PB`s: 10k:31.04, 3.000 m: 8.49, 5.000 m: 15.01 Powerman Belgium 2007: #6 Future goals: improving my running PB`s. Podium positions in the Powerman Duathlon Series.