State TT recap...

Well, again, my beliefs are confirmed.  That I hate that course and apparently, it hates me.

 

I am not one two cramp, but did it saturday.  About halfway outbound.

 

I held back on the starting climb, holding a little over 300w up it as in the past I have blown my whole race and been unable to recover from it.  Got caught by my 30s man and didn't panic.  Bombed the descent on the narrow bars hitting 72.3kph.  Caught the 30s man back and put some distance between us.

 

Thne the left calf went.  I limped along and tryed to keep pushing it, but every slight rise it was going or threatening to fully cramp into a knot of steel.  Then close to the turnaround the right calf joined in.  By the turnaround I had be caught back by the 30s man, the 1min man and (don't remember) probably the 1:30 by then.  Fun.

 

Down the backside with the longer climb ahead, it was all I could do to keep going.

 

2min man caught and passed me.

 

But hey, I didn't get last!  A lowsy 250w average (but not a bad ratio of speed to power @ 38kph on 249w).

 

 

And here is the wind "data" (the highlighted portion is ~ when I was out there):

 

 

If they continue to have state TT there, you won't see me there.  I have learned my lesson (4x over).

 

-g