Whilst Kevin and folk were hitting up the mountains with some grueling rides, I was riding as hard as I possibly could for a few minutes--I think I need some big days this week...
Saturday
Chris and I rode our asses off at the Haystack Mountain individual time trial. It was a 16.8 mile loop just north of town. Winds were coming out of the Northwest at a steadily annoying 10-15 mph or so. The course began on hwy 36 near Neva Road and headed North, taking a right-hand turn onto Nelson Road, then a right onto 75th, right onto Niwot Road, and finally continuing onto Neva Road, finished at the top of a hill just before hwy 36.
Usually, I love riding hard on that exact loop (minus heading west on Neva), because it is one of very few roads around here that has rolling hills and typically has a tailwind. Usually, heading east on Nelson is like a fast roller coaster: bombing the descents, sprinting up the hills in the 53-11, and basically just hauling ass. Unfortunately on race day, the winds turned Nelson into a typically tough crosswind jaunt. Heading down 75th was pretty fast, but still tough. Then heading back on Niwot/Neva was an absolute nightmare. Actually, every minute of the damn thing was a nightmare, which is why I'm going to avoid time trials whenever possible.
Anyway, numbers schmumbers:
I finished 7th in the cat. 3s with a time of 37:47:30, avg. speed: 26.7 mph.
Chris beat 11 dudes in the cat 4 race! This is the same Chris that has ridden his bike like 10 times in the past month and a half. He finished with a time of 47:34:40, avg. speed: 21.3 mph.
And um, winning time of the pros, by Ben Day of Toyota-United, was 32:54:90, avg. speed: 30.6 mph. Damn. Don't tell him, but I put EPO into his soy latte when he came into Saxy's on Friday.
Sunday:
Tokyo Joe's criterium in Golden. Pretty standard crit.


Big week of riding coming up and plenty of good weather!
2 comments:
"Whilst?" What, are you British now?
commenting on my own post...
As a testament to my earlier statements about Nelson being a fast road: With a tailwind today I was able to sprint at 54 mph on the flats just at the bottom of the hill...
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