Finally got out there

 And did a Time Trial. 

Missed the first two. Didn't quite match last years shockingly consistent numbers but I absolute dead nuts rode the same time as the first time I did the TT on the Madone.

21:03

Crazy. Also because Stava is giving everyone a 'hey try out premium on us' instead of my normal Lap screen, I had LIVE SEGMENT screen on the headunit at the start and it was NOT a helpful datafield. 

No speed, just times. And a pace indicator. Um DUH yeah I'm going to be going way under my fastest time ever (18:24) that was 12 years ago and 40 pounds lighter on a full aerobar bike. Sure the bike was heavier but net maybe 35-38 pounds lighter is kind of a big factor, esp on those little bits of the course that point ever so slightly or very slightly uphill.

Last time i set that time mark i was wiped out, tired, this time undertrained (fresh yeah right) and riding blind. How was my pacing? I don't know. But I started getting a bit light headed from the effort at the last little rise before the downhill and up and turn onto Reynolds. I backed it off on the downhill and tried to recover enough but felt a little flat from there on out. No one caught me, that was a shock. I did catch and pass Goldberg and Sutton's kid. Do I have more? I think maybe so. I really should lower the bars/slam the stem, and lose a few pounds and ride my bike more than just on the commute. Or just pedal harder.

Pedal harder, yeah. That's what the plan is.

Maybe smackdown even. Although it is supposed to be 100 degrees on Tuesday and yesterday I was giving the bike a sweat shower and it was only in the mid-80s. 

At least the fun part of the strava bonus content is I can see all the times and last year was kind of crazy consistent. Faster than right now but also maybe i was riding more? I think I was, can't really have been riding less.

Okay it is late, I had planned to head home early, and here it is not early. 

Hitting the dirt this weekend hopefully, maybe I'll plan to take thursday off next week too. It was kind of nice having a day at home to just recover/relax and while I did try and failed to get tires on the black blue (got a flat, attempted to put some conti 25s on someone had give me but they wouldn't go on, so i put the black mamba, worn out but light and fine for road on with tubes and well, rear tube got a flat. Maybe pinched from trying to get the conti on (it won't work on that rear asym rim) or something sharp was stuck to the dried sealant on the inside of the casing. 

Because of that and not wanting to ride the big orange surly today i overbiked and rode the Madone to work. Put the camera bag on the top tube even.

time to get change and roll out though...  into the heat and the wind.

remember:

Amor Fati Motherfuckers

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