Starting to get ready for our trip to see coach Dino in California for our gift to us trip at the end of a long season that was planned for even before the season started but first I still want to tell you about my provincial time trial that happened way back in August.
I know I know I was good at getting on top of my posts but now the season is done it’s a little harder to get around to my posts but I still wanna remember this race. The provincial time trial happened in Ottawa well an hour east of Ottawa. So traveled 7hrs the day before the race to town to be able to preride the course. The course was a 4 corner course easy as pie right? Apparently not. My husband and I battled construction traffic in downtown Ottawa and finally made it to our hotel an hour and half longer than what it should have taken us but we were finally able to get to the race course to preride it. I did the course 3 times and 3 times I tried to make a wrong turn so it was enviable that I did it on race day. During the preride managed to find the only rain of the day on the course but that helped for race day let me tell ya. So driving rain and heavy wind that seemed like it wanted to take my front wheel for a ride of it’s own. It took all of my weight on the front end of the bike to keep it where I wanted it to go. What a day. The day of the second most important race for me of this year the weather wasn’t that great to start I at least got through my warm up before it started raining. Then while in the line up to get my bike checked it started spitting…Then in the start house it start raining a little more. For the second time of this season when the count down happened in the start house and when I was told to go the holder didn’t let go. So I pushed off for the second time and he finally let go. Of course I thought my race was doomed from the start because of the way I was heading down the ramp, which was steep and short, but I got through it and I was mad. I was a locomotive going into my first corner which I thought in my mind was not a corner. I caught my minute person on the street that paralleled the back straight. Now it’s raining full on. My breathing was great at this point very fluid with my pedal stroke. I felt so good. I could just see my 2 minute person down the rode far down the rode. Last corner on the course which was getting pretty slick from the rain. In and out of the corner was fine. Going down the last straight away. I can now fully see my 2min person down the road. I focused on her and getting past her. Midway past the last corner I managed to pass my 2min person she gave me a good job and I was on my way. I see another intersection coming up and guess what I did. Yes I did it I turn right where I was suppose to just keep on going straight. I could not believe I did that. So I grabbed a fist full of front brake it wasn’t slowing me down. So I grabbed the back brake…eeek not a good idea. Back end of the bike came around and I saw my life flash for a couple seconds then let go of the brakes and got turned around and back on track. Back on track and going like mad again especially into the finish god I was happy I was done that race. Could of lost it all on that one corner. Can’t wait til next year.
Keep the rubber side down which I was apparent able during this one.
shell :-)
