Saturday - 15 May 2004
| Hrs. Sleeping: | 6 |
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| Distance Ridden: | TT - 10 km 48 miles total on the road + trainer time |
| Total Time: | TT - 14:59 crit - 40 min |
| Time of Day: | 10:00 am 4:30 pm |
| Weather: | mid 50s |
| Workout Type: | Mutual of Enumclaw Stage Race |
| Breakfast: | fruit smoothie |
| Lunch: | pasta, red sauce, it was a bit too much food... |
| Dinner: | cheese toast, tomatoes, wine |
| Ride Food: | gel just before the TT |
| Course: | TT - 10 km, flat with one 50' climb crit - flat figure eight |
| Results: | TT - 9th 4th after the crit |
| Comments: | Although I have felt like I needed to train moire these last two weeks (too much resting...) the TT went okay. I FELT fine, I just did not go as fast as I wanted. But hey, I am still riding a regular bike with regular wheels after all. [deadpan] I warmed up for 30 minutes on the trainer with three 60 second efforts; this felt good. The course was flat with one tiny rise. I got out of the blocks and shifted right to the 14. It was pretty much 53x14 or 15 the whole time. I think I went into the 17 or the 19 for the 'climb' and stood up. Except for a minute or two where I was bogging down on the last straight away (had to go back to the 15), It was fine. After our TT finish we (Alan, Will, Mike and I) rode one lap of the RR course. On the climb, Mike shifted his chain off the largest cog into the spokes and tore his derailleur hanger off! What a drag; to say the least. We decided to ride back and get a car for Mike and on our way back to town, it started to rain. Mike got a ride but the rain got harder and harder until it was just pouring. NOthing like showing up at the car with wet clothes and shoes knowing you have to put it all on again in four hours... It didn't let up for the crit and races were being held on wet streets with lots of manhole covers. Yes, there were multiple wrecks in just about all the races. In the crit, they divided the Masters up into A/B and C. This was a good thing as it reduced our field from 100 to 50. I warmed up for about 20 minutes on the trainer under the hatch of Alan's car. I had a great start and right away Mike is off the front (on a borrowed bike - thanks Lezlie). I'm blocking but then the pace really picks up, guys come around me and we real him in. A couple of laps later, I try to go with another guy. We got a gap but half a lap later the guy I'm with slides out in a corner! [crash number one] I'm just barely able to avoid him and go off course into the grass, around two parked cars and manage to get back in the pack in about 5th spot. Whew...! I close a few gaps, the race progresses and because I was riding at the front all the time, I did not realize that riders were being shelled and gapped like crazy. About one third of our field didn't finish! A bit later, another guy tries to break away and goes down. It wasn't that the road was so slippery - it was raining so hard that all the oil, etc. was washed off - it was that you had to watch out for metal covers in all the corners and be careful not to put too much power down as you were exiting the turns. With two laps to go, I move up again and pull Brian up into the top 10. With one half lap to, Brian is in 5th and goes down! He said he took his eyes off the road for just a second and rode over one of those metal covers... I was in about 7th or so and this was too far back to contest the sprint (it was a race to the second to last corner) and so I did not worry about it and finished in the pack. Because so many got gapped/dropped, I moved from 9th to 4th in GC. |
| Equipment: | Hyak, 12-23, Spinaci bars for TT |
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The very wet criterium Saturday afternoon. |  |
Brian C. on my wheel. |
