Sub 25

Well it was another day for the Hubbard time trial. Gatlin & I were both feeling beat down after the race this past weekend and practicing earlier in the week (plus Gat works outside in this crazy heat), so we weren't really expecting anything too impressive.

But Gatlin got to put his new bike to the test again - his first TT with it, so a first opportunity to semi-quantitatively assess how much it's benefitted him. They just put the aero bars on this afternoon, and the altered cable routing caused some brake tuning issues resulting in his front brake rubbing the rim. Despite this gigantic energy sink and his fatigue (whether real or perceived), Gatlin clocked an improved time from his previous - right around 26 minutes flat. That's about half a minute or so faster than his previous best, I believe. So great work Gatlin! Woulda been interesting if we could have compared your time as-is with one sans-brake-issue, but I bet (based on nothing quantitative [grin]) that it cost you a good 20 seconds.

I also improved my time significantly: 24:49 according to Mike's stopwatch. That's my first ever sub-25-minute ten mile TT. A bit more impressive than the 30 minutes from this spring. :)