Cherry Creek Time Trial Series #2
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Cherry Creek Time Trial Series #2 - Cycle
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Comments: Talk about miserable conditions. It was so cold and it was steadily raining and the wind was constantly changing and blowing me around. The words that kept going through my head the entire race were "BLOODY HELL" over and over and over again. Cause that's what I was going through! I even said it with a nice, thick English accent too. I stayed warm during the race because I had dressed as appropriately as I could (wool turtleneck under my skinsuit, arm warmers, knee warmers, thermal booties. But the minute I crossed the finish line and started my cooldown, I got those wonderful body-wracking, shaking chills. I felt like I was having spasms - oh wait, I was. My time was slower than last week's by 14 seconds, which considering the conditions, isn't TOO bad. In fact, it's probably an improvement even if it doesn't look like one. :) What would you do differently?: Get another speed magnet for my race wheel so I don't have to use the one off my training wheel and forget it at home. Post race
Warm down: Remember when I said I had to have at least one mishap at a race? Well, there was another one. I'm back at my car, freezing cold, spasming, and I unlock my car and put my key inside. Well, my fancy car has one of those auto-lock functions so if you don't unlock the whole system by either using the unlock remote or the unlock button on the car door, it will relock itself after 60 seconds. Well, the stupid car relocked itself with my key inside. OOPS! So I'm standing there in the rain, shivering, and I locked my keys in the car. But never fear - **ONSTAR** is here. I borrowed a cell phone, called OnStar (best thing EVER) and they had my car unlocked in about 5 minutes. So, not a total disaster, but still a mishap. By that time I was REALLY cold. I went home and scalded myself in a hot shower for 20 minutes just to warm up a little. What limited your ability to perform faster: Uh, the fact that it was freezing, wet, windy and miserable. It's hard to get pumped up for a race in those conditions. Event comments: I shouldn't complain about the weather TOO much. At the second race of last year's series, it SNOWED. Like a blizzard, but it didn't stick to the pavement, so they didn't cancel the race. Last updated: 2005-04-21 12:00 AM
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United States
American Cycling Association
46F / 8C
Precipitation
Overall Rank = /
Age Group = Cat 4 Women
Age Group Rank = 6/10
So I get to the race site and it's 46 degrees, raining, hailing and windy and I think to myself, "oh this is gonna be fun." I sat in my car for a while waiting for it to stop hailing (it was just pea sized, but still, that can hurt when you're on a bike), and it lets up after a while, so I set my bike up on my trainer under the "canopy" of the open rear door of my SUV. That helped block me from the rain a little bit.
I warmed up on the trainer dressed in about every piece of clothing I had. Looking around at all the other people warming up, it was obvious that no one wanted to be there today. I warmed up for about an hour, downed a gel and a little cytomax. Changed out my rear wheel (and hey, I didn't screw that up this time). Then I realized that I forgot to put my speed magnet on my front race wheel. Great. No speed readout on my computer. STUPID. There always has to be at least one mishap at any of my races. So, I was really just going to have to ride blind, go as fast as I could and just base it off my heart rate. Happily, I made it to the start line with plenty of time this time (not by the skin of my teeth like last week).