A nice summer day - not too humid.
A fairly uneventful roll into work and back.
Wildlife - a grey cat bathing in a driveway on White Ave.
Soundtrack - inbound - a medley of Social Distortion tunes, mostly 'Ball and Chain' & 'Ring of Fire' - outbound - thanks to a Rastafarian in a mini-van that I passed on Woodbourne - Bob Marley's 'Stir it up'
22 Miles
1880 YTD
10.8.08
Fabian Cancellara I am not...
Photo by Flickr user Will Rose
Yesterday Steve, Vinnie, and I went to Cambridge, MD for the Church Creek Time Trial. 40 kilometers against the clock. It was an interesting adventure - I'd never before gone all out like that over any distance. I finished 28th out of 33 participants in my group (Cat 5) and learned many lessons - like the value of aero bars, remembering your heart monitor, and perhaps training for such an endeavor.
Beforehand, Steve and I joked that we figured we would need to average better than 21 mph to be reasonably competitive and dubbed this the threshold of embarrassment. I fell just shy at an average of 20.8 and Steve clocked in at 21.8 - five places higher.
24.8 miles in 1 hour 11 minutes 41 seconds
(plus 10 miles getting to and from the course)
1858 YTD
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