Jutta Kleinschmidt at Dakar 2006
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Name: Jutta Kleinschmidt
Sports: Professional cross country rally driver, instructor. Hobbies are sports, computer technology, and flying.
Date of Birth: 29 August 1962
Home Town: Monaco (MC)
How do you keep physically fit: In doing power training and emphasizing the aspect of stamina in my fitness program. Power training helps keeping fit the upper part of the body, the back and the neck. My stamina is being trained by jogging and cycling. Normally, I do sports three times a week, whereas prior to big events, I practice on a daily basis.
What is your greatest achievement? Winning the 2001 Paris Dakar Rally
Future plans? Keep driving for as long as I can.
Suunto product used: Suunto t6
Quote of Suunto t6: The purpose is to find out the different pulse rate under different stress situations and physical work when outside the car. This to know in fact when I am training (biking or gym) and for my trainer, where to concentrate the different programmes, some astonishing results came up during the race.
I had tried another heart rate monitor and that did not work in the car, I was looking for a similar concept that could function in a very high-tech loaded car, and your Suunto t6 worked.
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Jutta Kleinschmidt in her racing car
Jutta's letter to Suunto:
Dear Suunto,
Firstly I would like to congratulate Suunto to its 70th birthday.
I am sure you have had a nice party, unfortunately my "Dakar" ended at the 11th stage.
DAKAR 06
It all started very well, we were well in the front group in Portugal and we advanced every day. In Morocco and Mauritania it was very tight between the top five cars, only seconds separated us, which is very unusual for the "Dakar". That shows that the tempo and the speeds are very high which is due to the cars getting better and the standard of the pilots being very high.
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In the sandy stage 7 in Mauritania we had three tire changes and we had to stop to fill oil - 8 min plus the tire changes approx. 10min. In stage 8 our engine overheated and we lost power and therefore we got stuck in very light sand, altogether I lost more than one hour. During our rest day in Nouakchott the ventilators for cooling were changed. They stopped to function in the middle of stage 9, therefore our engine overheated for the second time and we lost another hour this day. I had lost too much time due to technical problems! In my effort to make up some of my lost time I found the "jumping tree" that looked like a bush and that ended my race. It broke my right front suspension and the chassis! Hopefully I shall get back next year with better luck.
The Suunto t6 worked really well. Since I had tried another heart rate monitor and that did not work in the car, I was looking for a similar concept that could function in a very high-tech loaded car and your Suunto t6 worked.
The purpose is to find out the different pulse rate under different stress situations and physical work when outside the car. This helps me and my trainer to focus my training programmes on the right kind of training (biking or gym). Some astonishing results came up during the race.
For example, when we had the very fast days in Morocco with an average speed of more than 130 km/h my pulse was about 100. In the very curvy terrain (Portugal) my heart rate was between 150-160, in certain stages in Africa it was between 120-130, and when getting out of the car to change a tire or digging out in the sand my pulse got up to 185. On the 10th stage when it was very twisty I had a pulse of 110, to be compared with Portugal (150-160) where the stress factor was higher as I did not want to damage my car before getting to African soil.
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Jutta's heart rate and training effect/EPOC during Dakar measured by Suunto t6
Anyway, I had my Suunto t6 on every day I was in the race. One day was not registered because I had forgotten to download the data in the computer, and the Suunto t6 was full since I had it on for 3 full days without downloading. I was very satisfied with your Suunto t6, and I can see that it can help me and other professional drivers in improving their knowledge about the physical condition in different sections of a race - whether it is due to stress or lack of physical training is all to be analyzed.
With The Best Regards
Jutta Kleinschmidt
www.jutta-kleinschmidt.de
The Suunto Team hopes that Jutta will have many effective and inspiring training sessions in the future and all the best success for future races - without "jumping trees"!
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