Cherry Creek Time Trial Series

CCTT started April 12th this year. Last night was the 3rd race in the series. 1st race ! did 27:30. 2nd race ! did 27:09. 21 seconds faster. My PR was 26:46. Last night it was kind of windy when ! got out there, but it died down mostly by start time. ! was a little slower on the 1st part than usual. ! got to the big climb and hammered it. ! stayed @ 18mph most of the way up. Used to be ! would blow and do the climb about 12-13mph. ! was hurting coming over the top. The guy who started 20 seconds behind me was still in sight. He's pretty fast. Around the Tower Loop he was opening the gap. ! kept after him. he kept pulling away. ! was watching my heart monitor and decided ! wasn't working hard enough. Also, ! recalled that Daneille Haulman had beaten me by a few seconds last week and ! didn't want that to happen again. ! picked up the pace and after running about 29mph for a while ! realized ! had a good tailwind to push me back to the finish. ! decided to make the most of it and try to make up as much time as ! could that ! lost on the way out w/ the head wind. ! was @ 13:44 coming around the half way loop so ! was expecting about 27:30. After crossing the finish, ! checked my time. ! was amazed to see 26:44. That would be a new PR. The official time was even better. 26:42. Wheeeeee! A 27 second improvement over last week. Average speed was 23.8 mph w/ a max of 36.7 mph