First race at Nationals is done! Yesterday was the ITT. My race was 12 miles on a rolling course (6 miles out and back). Things were pretty hectic before my start, but I managed to get there with enough time to complete rollout. I had a tube of ice (packed in some panty-hose...) stuffed down the back of my skinsuit to keep my core nice and cool throughout my race, and it worked very well. Although I had strange water marks all along my backside...
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| Women's 17/18 TT podium |
Anyways, the course starts out on a dam, and immediately after I shot out of the start gate I settled in to suffer. Last year's winning time was around 29 minutes, but the top five riders finished within 1 minute or so from that time, so my goal was to finish the race in under 30 minutes to at least make the podium.
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| 2012 ITT Podium, Junior Women 17-18. |
I passed a lot of girls on the rollers (tiny little things coming from Vermont!) and that's where I made up a lot of time. My mouth was extremely dry on the second leg of the TT – the whole race I had it wide open attempting to get as much air as possible (not sure how aero that is...). Anyways, before hitting the bridge and coming into the homestretch I passed another rider, and I was gaining on the next rider in front of me but I just couldn't close the gap before the finish.
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| Less than 200m from the finish! |
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| Coming out of the starting gate. |
I crossed the line in 30:14.72 good enough for a 5th place finish! Not too bad, especially since I wasn't running a $15,000 time trial rig! You can see full results
here. Coming into the TT I really didn't have any expectations for myself; while I had been practicing quite a bit since KSR and tweaking my position, this race was only my fourth TT race ever.
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| Me and my teammate Ian after our award ceremonies. He also placed 5th in his age group! |
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