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Well, I failed to meet my time goal for the state TT…but for good reason. The course was a lot harder than I imagined it would be. For the 40 km out-and-back course, we ended up doing just over a 1000 feet of climbing. The longest flat stretch of road was probably only about 0.5 mile long. (See profile below for what it looked like.)

I ended up running a 61:10 which was good enough for a 5th of 9 cat 3’s. The winner ran in the 57’s, which was my original goal. My legs were so sore all week leading up to the race, I guess from the last two weeks of training, so I will take this result.

The funniest thing is that on the start which was uphill, I was under-geared (53×19, I think) so I popped a wheelie and had to unclip to recover, but the hills were the real reason for my time, not a couple seconds lost at the start. The eventual winner started 30 seconds behind me and passed me 2.5 miles in. He would be the last to overtake me thankfully. At the end, I started passing the later starting Cat IV’s and was held up a little by one (there was a car that waiting behind them to pass as I approached… this probably only meant a few seconds delay).

Next weekend is the Allanti RR/TT + crit. The road race is the Tennessee state RR, so I hope to do well on the course. The course looks to be just a rolling as the terrain of the TT (the start is only about 10 miles away).

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Bill Parsons took some photos at the State TT, here are two that I got of me…