Friday, June 26, 2009

Hubbard Time Trial

Another great TT. I improved my time from the last TT by six seconds despite the wind and royally screwing up my turn. Plus tonight we had two TT rookies: Gatlin's dad Mike (thanks in part to my underhandedness) and my commute buddy Justin. Both of them did great.

Justin is a great match for me - about my age and about my speed - I gained maybe 30 seconds on him over the ten miles. He and his friends decided to enter their first triathlon & race one another in a couple months, and I have a feeling he's gonna make them cry. :) He's also planning to be on my 2010 Lyle Pearson team, and we may even be able to team up on a stage and paceline if we stay so evenly matched through next spring.

Mike, on the other hand, has been harping about how out of shape he is since we met this spring, but he absolutely destroyed all the expectations for a slow time that he'd built up with his sandbagging. He clocked just 30 seconds over my first ten-mile TT time ever. Great job Mike!

2 comments:

mccreager said...

Don't think your gonna get me to do this every week. Fat guys are allergic to these things I think

Dan said...

You're such a sandbagger, Mike. :) You clocked a 30-minute TT your first time out with minimal preparation, you hung right in there with us this weekend... I say you love it, and you won't convince me otherwise. You love pedaling fast & you're good at it too. You want to pedal even faster & you're ready to work toward that goal, but you're just afraid to state that goal publicly for fear of not attaining it.