Hi folks-
There indeed was a TT yesterday, and I'll give you a quick report.
With the weather being a big pile of dog doo lately, I was a little obsessive in checking the forecast. Even on Saturday, weather.com said that the temps should be close to 40 on Sunday morning. So I get up all hung over on Sunday morning, check the weather online, and it says 37 degrees. Score. I get myself all dolled up for the ride to Boulder and realize by the time I get about a mile down that I needed thicker tights. Descending S. Boulder Rd. my beard developed icicles and my extremities started going numb, but the view of the fog in the valley was pretty cool. I was encouraged: the roads were nice and dry and it was only going to get warmer. Once I got into Boulder, I noticed that the fog, while pretty, was not what I wanted to see. It was freaking cold. When I got to Vics, David Chrislip was there waiting in his nice warm car. He told me the radio said it was about 37, but his car was reading 24. That's a big difference. After a little putzing, we were off. The fog was thick and cold, and the roads were super crappy. After lots of conversation about the best way to ride on ice, we got to the start at 75th and St. Vrain (eastbound). David was to go first, and just before starting he said "If I don't warm up A LOT, I'm turning for home at 63d." Couldn't blame him. Since I was behind him, I could see that he did indeed warm up as we were heading up Nelson. As for the TT itself, David got faster as the miles ticked by, and I got slower. At the finish line (6914 sign on the right), Ken met us with some high quality hot chocolate and nice conversation. He confirmed for us that it was really 23 degrees. Did I say it was cold? Well, if I'm redundant, that's because it was cold. The ride home down 75th, 52, 79th, Lookout, and 75th was way hillier than I wanted. David pulled me to Jay. Hopefully he got home in better shape than my bonked self.
In case you want to do the TT on your own and want a time to shoot for, David completed the ~14 miles in 40:38 (DC, I hope it's OK I put your time in here). I was about 1:20 slower, but I had a little trouble with manual dexterity so the time's approximate.
I'd suggest we try again next weekend, but I need some time to forget
what it's like to do a time trial. Four weeks should do it.
I hope you all are enjoying the sun-
Josh
