Thursday, August 01, 2013

PR night

Tonight was pretty insane.

Not normal prep. No burrito. Food was questionable, sleep was not quite right.

2:50p-6:10p driving. Just a short little drive to Logan and back (to the TT).

So many questions about if it was going to happen...  get there, stand around in street clothes. Bob shows up and yup it is on.

Super fast change, only flashed a few people i think, no one permanently blinded.

Forgot to turn on Strava. Forgot to suck down a gelly carbo squishy pack.

It was cool drizzling at the start, 30 second intervals.  Starting behind Becca, Dave Potter is 30 second behind me and he usually beats me by more than that...

MOTIVATED.

Also very curious as to how i would race without any sort of warm up at all. NO WARM UP.

Turns out. Seeing Becca super early, wow motivating, I can see someone. Totally blew up early. caught her and Richard at the same time well before the corn crib and then blew sky high.  Becca passed me back, i passed her back, she passed me back before Reynolds and held a few second gap until Peck, after the hill i finally caught her and I could feel Potter coming, I saw him with a decent gap on the turn to reynolds.

Wound up hitting the turn onto 118, knowing Potter was on my wheel and NO F'N WAY HE WAS COMING AROUND ME.

Boom, unload everything. Unload it like 2009 at NoHo sprint finish unload. Heart Rate was off the charts for the normal TT, cool weather maybe? Motivated? coffee at 5:30? Max over 180, haven't seen that in a few years. avg for the race was 171, a good 5 beats over normal.
http://racesplitter.com/races/AE510D958

results.

There.

No strava because while i had my phone in my pocket I totally forgot to turn on the strava thing. oops.

insane night. felt amazing. lungs are burning. still.

Thanks to Bob for coming out and making it happen.  One more single TT next week then we have the two man race.

1 comment:

hey, it's me said...

fuck yeah.
great write up.
way to make a TT exciting to the end of a race report.

Nice work on the bike too buddy!

very well done.

respect
fm