Last week i had a pretty okay ride, time was good but it was a PR night for everyone else. I was, who knows what was up. everything?
This week has been the lowest mileage week in a loooooong time, but it wasn't bad low mileage. Got a good ride in on Monday. a little riding around between here and there mid week, TT last night. And snuck out for a little 18 mile recovery ride this morning.
The TT was crazy. With the forecast heat I decided to do pack 3 gallons of ice, and a pile of water bottles into the large timbuk2 messenger bag with the aero helmet inside. Kind of a lot. Esp since once we started riding out it actually felt better than the week before.
Managed to even get a decent night sleep before hand, ate plenty all day, drank water all day. And even added a walk in the heat down to the Gallery to show the Runner and her co-workers the exhibit before it was taken down (no more GeWilli art on display except in my office now).
So a nice little couple miles walking in the intense heat (with a bottle of Skratch consumed on the way down).
Heck I even started the day by wearing ENGVT casual shirt, the cotton socks with the new NB 1080s with flash green accents.
Sucking all the kit watts I could. But yes. I had to drive. Complicated life of the summer of trying to get kids where they need to go at times that are just maddeningly inconvenient.
Why can't daycamps start at an hour that makes sense for parents who have to work who are the ones most likely to send the kids to do stuff in the summer? Side rant. Ah well.
Car. Bike. TT bike. Swapped tires on there. Got some slightly lighter faster rolling rubber on the bike.
And then ate a lucky burrito for lunch. not THE lucky burrito. I think I lost a few burrito watts because this one didn't have sour cream or quac but it was still a good one. But asking for a BEAN burrito and getting a BEEF burrito is sort of different. I ate it anyway... Burrito Watts are Burrito watts.
So Totally it up. No riding Watts, extra Kit Watts and #PRO watts, Burrito Watts.
Oh and ICE WATTS. I mentioned the ice right? I'm sort of an idiot. the bag was leaking cold ice water on my all the way out. BUT it was nice. I was able to cool down and be completely comfortable at the start of the TT and then post TT cool all the way back down. Sadly the Ice I have access too isn't/shouldn't be consumed so I make due with just rubbing handfuls of ice into kit and head and stuff. Once I hit Reynolds I could feel my temp getting a bit higher than I wanted, Got super overheated by the end which is a lot nicer than getting overheated by the merge onto 118.
One nice surprise was seeing the purple people eater kit (The http://weebikeshop.com/store/ sponsored team colors) roll up. None other than the Solobreak himself. And despite his steady suggestion that he'd be the slowest to show up, he wasn't. BUT he did get staged near his last race time... he did a normal longer cool down and then was gone before too much catching up. Was good to see the old pain in the ass in person. Maybe we see him again this week. maybe not.
The Results.
Potter ticked in the fastest time at 18:34. A lot slower than the previous week. Morse had a problem with his saddle, the nose slipped down and he wasn't having much fun and only came in at 18:54. BUT I managed to squeak in just in front of him at 18:53.
Terry was the new kid for the night. He asked what time and I said 20:30 +/- 30 seconds. He missed the turn on Peck just to make sure I hit my over/under prediction. Fox just got narrowly edged by the Kyle. Who must have really turned himself inside out because he was riding in the middle of the road forcing construction vans to pass him on the right and then standing around in the middle of the road like a stoned deer. So i got my 2nd overall for the night 3/4 weeks in 2nd, beating the guy who beat me in the first two weeks. And I PR'd.
So yeah. Anyway. it was a good night racing.
and while i've had plenty of shit percolating in my brain it has taken me this long to finish this entry... who knows if i'll get the good stuff out before it gets flushed out by new shit.
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