Monroe Time Trial Pics

Last Sunday was the TCC 20K Time Trial in Monroe, 12.4 miles of fun. We had a great turnout of folks from Team LaS'port. Mat would win the overall and that was no surprise...the guy's a stud-hoss. JP won the Cat. 5 division. The big deal was having four women from our team out there, including Jonnene!

I didn't have as good a time out there...just wasn't my day. I knew I was in better shape than last year...way better...but nothing came together for me. It didn't help that there was a headwind on the outbound leg and once I went around the first curve I was going only 19 mph instead of the 27 mph I should have been doing at that point. That shot me mentally because I knew I wasn't going to get the 31-minute time I was hoping for. Plus a sqeaking noise out of my cogset started getting on my nerves...plus I kept sliding forward on my seat (I readjusted the seat after the race...we're okay now), hitting my elbows with my knees...plus....

Yeah, quit whining, Alan. Basically, I just couldn't get into a rhythm and I ended up 34 seconds slower than I was last year with a 33:34. Just 16 months ago I did a 30:22 on this same course. Oh, well, it was a good workout and I'll get over it.

Here I am talking to Elka before the time trial. She had a great ride, going 33:32, although she complained of the difficulty in the wind she had.
I understood totally.

Ready to go at the starting line...or at least I thought I was ready. About a minute later I was going to find out that my ride was going to be a disappointment!

Jonnene and Elka preparing to line up for their starts.

Mary checks in with the starter while Jonnene and Brantley wait behind. Everyone went off at one minute intervals.

Coming across the finish line...you can see in my face that I'm not happy with my ride. It should have been faster but it wasn't. No biggie, it'll get better as the year goes on. Hopefully this is my only bad day of the year and that means I already have it out of the way now!