Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Back At It

(from Jenn)

Well, after my embarrassing performance at the first time trial of the year last month, I've been afraid to go back.  Sure, I said it was o.k. because I could only improve on my first time.  But what if I didn't...?  What if I couldn't?  And so I stayed away.

But tonight I sucked it up and headed out.  It was a cool, comfortable night, but a little windy.  Peter (and a few others) rode earlier, and he said it sucked.  Good, I thought.  At least I'll have an excuse if I do terribly again.

But it wasn't that bad!  I rode a 30:10, which isn't fast by any means, and which is still two minutes off my PR from last year, but it's a minute plus faster than my May time.  I'll take it!  I felt especially good about my effort on the last uphill stretch.  I usually plan to push it hard there but have nothing left and have to just spin it out to the finish.  But tonight I felt like I was able to maintain more power through the end.  Felt good!  In a painful kinda way. :-)

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