Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Indoor time trial series changes

http://www.teamdaytoncycling.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=153&Itemid=85

I doubt they'll have a large turn out for November and December, but you never know.

Race Dates: 11/15/09, 12/13/09, 1/10/10, & 2/7/10

That would be a way to get in the November and December races, but I doubt I'll have much punch by Nov 15 as I haven't begun my training program yet after so many months of inactivity and eating. It could serve as a baseline number. Who knows? I may do it depending on how I feel after only two weeks on the bike leading up to it.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Math was off, this was race #34

The final Colavita time trial on October 10th was also my final race of 2009. My first race was January 11th so it's been a long season. I rode a bike exactly twice since the last Colavita TT, so expectations were non existent and I didn't disappoint. The cold kept everyone's time a little on the high side and I rolled in with only a 22.9 average, my slowest time trial on a time trial bike. Took third place uneventfully.

It had been a long time since I did work at threshold so the afternoon was spent being sick. I used to get sick after tt's until I trained that out of my system and hadn't been sick like that in two years.

I did take the season series for the 30-39 age group and won a jersey. Nice!

So for the season wrap up:
8 wins
5 second places
3 third places

It looks like I'll be able to actually start training again by the end of next week. Over the winter my tt bike will be strapped to the trainer for hour long death marches and I hope to get out on the road bike as much as I can.

See you in 2010. First race will be early January so it won't be long!