I do enjoy track immensely, but the harsh reality is that location at the minimum, among other more global issues, seems to mean I'm not really a trackie. I would blame it on Covid, but really the roots were planted before 2020, although I think it certainly brought it forward at an accelerated rate. It honestly leaves me in a weird spot mentally. Now I'll be thrilled if I get to go to the track at least once for a long weekend this year. It's almost impossible to believe I was traveling to Rock Hill at least once a month a couple of years ago. Certainly if I ever had a good line around the black, I've lost it. I don't even know if I remember how to ride it. Fortunately my training the last year or so was more suited to a sub 20 minute effort and I was able to "fake it" a bit more convincingly than I could in the 40k.
It was thankfully only about 10k, so although I again did suffer, it wasn't all that long. The Oak Ridge Velo TT I was in possibly even worse shape for, having spent a week in the woods in Montana. I've come to terms with the fact that I'm likely never going to snag a State TT jersey, so I don't have that burden of disappointment any longer.Įven channeling my Inner Bigham didn't help Still, just to finish was a personal victory for me. I did manage to stay under 60 minutes, but I think I averaged around 220 watts. I really wanted to just stop at the turnaround on the first lap, it was that bad.
It's one of the tougher events I've ever completed. I felt pretty good for about 5 minutes, tolerable for about 20 minutes, and then I really suffered the rest of it. The long and short of it was, I went in out of shape in general, but VERY out of shape for a 40k effort. I would write a race report but again, nothing worthy of it's own post. I used it twice, at the TN State TT and the Oak Ridge Velo in 2021. I made a dummy shifter for the other extension (3d printed and then wrapped a layer of carbon over top of it) and other than not reading the manual (I didn't get a manual) and not understanding how to check the battery level, no hiccups. I put everything together and it worked, which was welcome but unexciting.
there just wasn't much to say, definitely not enough for a blog post. I know I had promised the ultimate cheapskates di2 build part 2, but honestly.
well you're aware of how things are I'm sure. I've got some hope that things will change in 2022, but here we are staring down February and things are still a little. Honestly there is not much to post about because not much is happening, or has been happening in some time. It has of course been a while as has become my normal the last few years.
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