10 mile TT this morning!
I prepared very well, warmed up, felt great, my legs felt amazing, I knew I was going to ride well, then I realised I had screwed up my timing and confused myself re the start location in relation to the HQ thinking it was as close as the one used last time, it was much further though queue a mad dash to get to the start, arrived on the line right at the last second to be met with the holder pulling my warmup top off me and the timekeeper saying "Go", no time to be held up for a proper start etc, I then confusingly said "Did you say go?", "yes, GO!", I fumbled away from the line panicking, failing to clip in and basically being right plank! Once going though, absolutely caned it, hit the turn with a 30.4 mph average, railed it round the turn (quite surprised by how I got round there, I am usually rubbish at corners etc) and then got back on my aero bars reminding myself to be as aero as possible knowing that most other riders had been moaning about the hard headwind on the way back. Really pushed hard on the way back, was nearly being sick by mile 8 but kept it down and was going fast, there was definitely a headwind but I kept aero and kept pushing as hard as possible! Crossed the line with 19:59 (30 mph average, the magic milestone) on my Garmin according to my button pushing however due to my doofusness arriving late to the start without time to be held up for a proper start, my hesitation and with the messy start my official time was 20:11! Oops!
At least I got to the start in time and didn't get a late start penalty and it is still a massive PB! Plus I put out a power PB of ~390W for the 20 minute effort!
As coach says, it's done now, time to rest up and recover ready for tomorrow Association Championship 25TT!
