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The Furnace Creek 508 is one of the premiere ultra distance cycling events in California. This year I will be competing again on a two man relay team. My stages will total 285 miles and 18,500 feet of climbing.See the website for our Praire Dog team. Two weeks earlier I completed the Everest Challenge. This event involves 29,035 feet of climbing in two back to back days. It was the most challenging event I have ever taken on.

 Franz on 2007 FC508
This table shows several rides over the past 6 weeks where I was pushing the pace, some of them on back to back days.

Furnace Creek 508 Training
Day
Miles
Climb
Time (rolling/total)
Avg/Max HR
MPH (rolling/total)
Training Ride on 9/27
61 feet/mile
9/27
117
7,080
6:45/7:14
140/174
17.4/16.1
Everest Challenge 9/20 and 9/21
141 feet/mile
9/20
122
15,468
9:07/9:20*
142/163
13.5/13.1
9/21
86
13,570
7:18/7:30*
133/154
11.8/11.5

* includes the non-timed portion final descent for each day. Race times were 8:26:40 and 6:21:08 for a total of 14:47:48
Training Rides on 9/13 and 9/14
104 feet/mile
9/13
88
8,360
5:38/6:13
138/167
15.6/14.2
9/14
86
9,900
6:39/7:54
125/158
12.9/10.9
Training Rides on 9/6
94 feet/mile
9/6
135
12,800
9:22/10:58
134/167
14.4/12.1
300 Warriors Race on 8/16/08
96 feet/mile
8/16
99 miles
9,500
6:20/6:30
148/168
15.5/15.2
These charts show how I have done on my 19 week training program compared with my training plan, last year at the same time, and how I did earlier this year when training for the Devil Mountain Double. Everest Challenge starts at the end of Week 17 and the Furnace Creek 508 starts at the end of Week 19.
Accumlated weekly miles
Accumlated weekly climbing feet
Weekly Miles
Weekly Feet Climbing
Weekly Longest Ride
Weight Loss Plan
Weight Loss

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