Time Travel

The time trial season is now upon me, with mixed success. Despite an early start (4am feeding Grace, then 7am getting up!) I managed a personal best (well, last few years PB) of 23.19 at the Fullarton Wheelers event at the end of April. Conditions were good with little wind, but equally little warmth (we had to scrape ice of the car in the morning!). I was pretty happy with that until I saw a picture from the race, and was horrified with how un-aero I looked!

Anyway, a few tweaks (a bit more Levi Leipheimer now) and a couple of training sessions on the TT bike, the first of the club TT's took place in horrific wind on the Chapleton course. This involves 5 miles slightly downhill (with a gale behind), then 5 miles back up said hill (with a massive headwind!). 25.11 was pretty decent in the conditions, but 12mph is something one should never see in a time trial!

Round 1 of the Rabbie Burns 250 Series at Eglington tonight was sensibly cancelled. With gusting winds, and a lot of standing water on the A78, visibility was very poor, and it would have been an accident waiting to happen. I felt a bit sorry for the good folks who had travelled over from Edinburgh though - I was at least able to have a burn-out on the turbo when I got home!

The Scottish 10 on the A77 course will be a good leg-stretcher before the Rabbie Burns Series gets underway with the Beatock "25" and the Pennyglen Hilly.