Tuesday Time Trials

Yesterday was Tuesday time trial day. After last week when I did the Time Trial for the first time and had so much fun, I convinced Joanne to come this week to try it out. I loaded up our bikes and drove to the Time Trial course which is 15km from our house. I wanted to ride out there but Joanne said she couldn't manage the ride out there and back plus do the TT, so we drove.

We met up with everyone at the start on Golf course road. after I unloaded our bikes we went for a little warm up ride before the TT started. Joanne decided she will only do the out and back for 10km instead of the 20km double out and back because it would take her to long to finish.

We got our starting order and off we went one after another starting 30 seconds apart.

I was a nice day and not to windy, the wind was blowing in are face on the out which is flat with a slight down hill grade, with the winds on out backs coming back.

Well everything felt good today, and off I went. A nice steady pace, not pushing to hard, but hard enough to get me breathing hard. I tried to maintain at least a 38kph or better pace going on the out with the slight decline but the wind was resisting, so i pushed my pace a bit harder and geared down one less gear. Aaaaaa feeling good.

I hit the turn around and start the slight incline for the way back. Still spinning in my lower gear I push it up a notch and gear up as my cadence was a little high for me being the masher I am.

Now I'm back to the start finish line for my next loop and away I go. At this time I had caught up to the rider who started a min before me, and for most of the second loop I stayed behind him until I decided to punch it and pass him just before the last turn around for the way back.

Shortly after i passed him i eased up and he now passed me and keeps going. I then push a littler harder and just keep up behind him and thinking to myself? OK I'll keep pace until around 400 m to the finish line, then I'll sprint it out to beat him at the finish.

So I waited and kept up with him. At around the 400m mark to the finish line I pull up into his slipstream and pull past him while kicking it into my highest gear and sprint standing up pulling away from him to beat him to the finish. He sees me pass and he kicks it up to, to try to catch me. I'm now pulling away at 42kph going on the uphill but I start to tire, but keep it going at the 42kph rate. I'm still pushing, but my legs are tiring as I'm in my areo seated position.

Now my speed is slowing down to 40...39...38.....The finish is less then 50m away and I feel the other guy catching me, now passing me. I stand and try to give it one more kick and start catching up to him but ran out of road as he beat me, finishing less then 1 second ahead of me.

Dang! I miss timed my sprint to the finish!......But!! Man that was fun we both said to each other as we turn around to go back to the finish line to see our time. He was clocked at 34.25 and I had a 33:56 Woooo!

I won't know what my official time and average is until it's posted on the KTC website blog.

As for Joanne? She did her 10 km ride and said she enjoyed doing it and riding with the group, giving her all clocking herself at 23kph average. which is a good start for her as she has never done this before.