got the Paramount set up, even put a new drive train on it.
Swapped out the 32 spoke wheel i rolled into work this morning on in the shakedown cruise, and put a bladed low spoke count front wheel on after I got home to feed the dog.
Got it all sorted out and started to head to the TT on time, should have been able to make it to the meet up point. Get out there and the front tire is flat. W. T. F. this doesn't happen. but i guess it did. something worked into the tube and hitting the high pressure or the swap or something poked it and poof. Instead of rolling out when i wanted to, i had to change tubes.
Ah well.
Called goldberg, but he wasn't going, he was working. Damn then remembered I think i have Kyle's # call him, no answer, shit, get rolling again. I guess he called but i rolled up to the VW shop there and pulled the phone and noticed the missed calls and started to call and there they were, rolling off the bridge ramp.
Andrew M, Kyle, Wrecca Becca and Steve M. Steve got a new TT bike, a new sweet helmet, nice tri-spoke wheel, disc rear. Shit is real. He's done a few practice runs out there, like me, targeting the TTs as a build into CX.
Steve is last, then me, then Jack Tickle. Jack and I talk CX for a while, right up to the start.
And boom. This course is deceptively hard I think. There are just enough minor tiny bumps in elevation to disrupt any full out effort and then there is Reynolds. Also the weather conditions are so critical to a good time. A headwind down tremont can tank the days numbers.
Turnout is always best when the weather is blowing right down Tremont because everyone knows they can set a good time. Lack of out and back or circular course means a big change. You're still going to finish where you finished relative to the days starters but that all important number in the spreadsheet is a slave to the weather.
Riding home I had a headwind, thinking, nice, I'll have a tailwind to help get to the start. Nope. Wind shifted around and I had a cross wind all the way up. But I thought "hey that's awesome, tailwind on Tremont."
WRONG. wind was cross head all the way down Tremont and Reynolds. Flat tire also meant i was too distracted to turn on strava and luckily tried to take a kit watts photo sporting the ENGVT shoe covers and noticed it hadn't started. Oops.
Once we started rolling it felt heavy, very heavy.
The turn onto Reynolds I could see Jack up ahead but I couldn't close in enough. But Steve hadn't caught me so that was good.
I unloaded everything I had and still only managed a 19:30 on the night. Steve rolled in with a 19:05. Wrecca bloused a piled of dudes but i don't remember her time. But am kind of worried, she wasn't that far behind me and while she showed up on her BMC Tri machine, she left the skinsuit, shoe covers and aero helmet at home... and this was the first time on the course. The rumor to her speed is not to be discounted.
Rolled back home.
Made salad for dinner. Dressing? I said fuck it and didn't want to mix it all so i just dumped olive oil vinegar and some other stuff on top and tossed it all together. You know what? It worked. was really pretty yummy. Hit the spot. beer or two tonight, and then maybe if i'm lucky i'll be able to fall asleep like last night - BOOM lay down in bed and OUT. SO TIRED.
Tomorrow is a big night, poor dog is like Dude you leave, then you come home only to feed me and leave, and then come home and eat left overs (or salad). WTF! Sorry Lucy, we'll chill together this weekend, of course I'm going to try and work on Saturday so that kind of messes up that plan for her.
Ah well.
she's dealing just fine, very happy to see me when i get home.
tomorrow
so
stoked
i've kind of given up on the whole inviting people/expecting people i know to show and have accepted on good terms that I'll be there and pity the fool who doesn't want a dissertation length answer to any question about my images.
19:30, slow but the conditions were tough. the blue franken bike worked well enough. It was a good day.
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