Successfully defended the State TT Championship today, Women’s 50-54 age group.

Beat the State RR Champion (who took second place) by 3.5 minutes.

Slow conditions today, not fun. Wind shift such that 75% of race was into the wind. Fortunately not much wind until the end. The final leg was hot, uphill, headwind. I was sitting on a really good time going into that leg, looked like I’d PR it. But then it all fell apart- cramping, hot, uncomfortable. I just wanted to sit up and break aero position but I figured if I was gonna have sucky power the least I could do is stay aero. So I stuck it out. Not the greatest time but everyone was slower today than last year, it was actually ok.

Teammate won the men’s 35-39, and friends won women’s 45-49, 55-59 and cat 4 races. Well done everybody.

Im gonna attempt to qualify for next years National Senior Games TTs on Tues and Wed. Aerotesting Wed at the track after the race. Then I head to the mountains on the new mtb to start deconstructing a 50k mtb fondo route that I’ll maybe make a stab at doing in September.