State Championship Time Trial

No fun! Somehow this course got billed as flat to rolling, but after reviewing the elevation profile, Ryan figured out that there was about 1000 feet of climbing on the 24.something mile course. I honestly don’t remember a single flat spot other than the approx. 1/4 mile stretch before the turnaround (which was just over the crest of one of the course’s many hills.

Anyway- I hadn’t trained for a 40K time trial on any terrain, so the hills were no excuse for a less-than-stellar performance. Kirsten Sass is a monster- she turned a 1:00:01- landing her the championship as well as in 21st overall out of 104 people. My teammate, Lori Jug also kicked some butt and picked up the silver medal with a 01:03:03.

I finished 4th with a 1:05:30. I was pretty bummed because it was 8 seconds slower than the 3rd place finisher. I’m pretty sure I lost that time when an SUV pulled around me just before a blind hill and curve in the road and decided they couldn’t get around the slow guy I was preparing to pass, so I was forced to slam on my brakes and wait for what seemed like an eternity for the car to figure out when it could safely pass a guy going about 20mph (I was railing down the previous hill at about 35 when they passed me). LAME! That was at nearly 5k to go, and really took what little wind I had left in my proverbial “sails” at that point.
Oh well. At least my bike was awesome…

I got right back to training this morning with a 72 mile trip to Shelby Forest and back. My legs actually felt pretty damn good considering the effort I put in yesterday. Maybe I’m destined to be a stage racer :)

One thought on “State Championship Time Trial

  1. Stupid SUV’s!!!!!!!

    Good job anyway though, staying strong after that incident to finish where you did…….:)!

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