Took it out for 20 miles on Saturday morning and fiddling with the seat position. Its still a little off, but better. I need to mess with it on the trainer, the nose of the saddle is a little too high. Anyways, the race:
I was up early, 4am, cause I had to be there at 5 to help run registration. that was done at 630-640ish and was windy the whole time. My start time was 7:22:00. I didn't have time to set up on the trainer for warm up but rode on the frontage road with my friend who started a minute behind me for a little, but not enough. They started late because of a larger than expected number of racers running the 20k. I started clean but was hit right away with the 12mph avg headwinds for the first 11-12k. After the first 4 miles I was hurting and slowing down and losing cadence. I made it up the overpass where the turn around was at only 12.5 mph or so. Like I said, bad. But then the down hill from the overpass and the tail wind helped me spin and feel better. The whole way back i stayed aero and didn't drop below 20mph and my cadence stayed right where I needed it to, around 85rpm. I finished 20k in 0:43:44, 17.05 mph. That is about 1-2mph faster than my normal ride time right now. I feel pretty good about it. Lots of room for improvement, but I lost 3 weeks of training due to no road bike and there was a decent headwind right away. My goal for next race, July 6th, is under 40 min. I think with training i can cut out 3 min. Pics as soon as the are posted to the photographers site.
