KSR Stage 2 - 10mi TT

[JeremyC]

Not a good start to the day when I could barely get my broken body out of bed. Thanks to getting crashed out of Stage 1 I had an early start to the TT at 8:52 (6th out of the gate), with my brother directly 30sec behind me. We got the same time but our official placing from the day before was like 65 and 66. Thanks BRC

In all honesty I was psychologically scarred and wasn't feeling up to suffering for 30 mins. BUT I tried to stick to my plan to hit certain power numbers for the 3 segments of the course. Felt like crap out of the gate but settled in and was doing fine but not great. My brother said I paced him perfectly as he kept me in his sights for the entire TT. Got through the harder first half on target power wise but my speed sucked as it was into a minor headwind. Got to the flatter part and I was fading. I did pass all 5 people that started before me, but took little solace since those were the guys who had been dropped the day before. Anyway, tried to finish strong over the last K which was a nice rolling side road on good pavement (so I thought) and about 200m from the finish I hit a huge pothole and my water bottle shot out. I looked down and everything seemed OK so I sprinted to the finish. I knew it wasn't a great result but I tried my best. I finished 28th, same as last year. What a bummer as I had trained on the TT bike hard this winter. My brother never passed me, but made up 15 secs and finished 23rd. Big improvement from last year. Scott put in a very respectable 36th another 25 secs back. The times were much slower this year due to the wind, which was non-existent last year.

On a side note, my rear Zipp 808 lost all its air after the race while I was cooling down and I looked and it is cracked. Now both 808s are ruined (the front yesterday), add in the 2 boyds from last weekend and I'm hemoraging Carbon wheels. $3000 worth of carbon into the trash heap. I almost feel sorry for whatever gear I'm about to break in tomorrow's sufferfest.

[swawersik]

To quote OGD: "Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you."

Big kudos just for hanging tough.

[Smudger]

Get that yahoo Zipp rep that was at the pro night telling everyone how tough his wheels are to answer that. If a zipp as much as looks at a potholes you can pretty much guarantee it will crack.

How much time are you back? Green light for a solo break away tomorrow?

[scott_sweeney]

Absolutely guarantee that Zipp will say "pilot error" and happily charge you $800 for a re-build. They suck so bad.