Willow Time Trial

Danny, Devin, Eric, Kathy, Jack, Jake, Micah, Nate and Shonger represented Team Active Racing at Michigan's first USA Cycling event of 2009, the Willow Park Time Trial.
Jack's Recap:

This year's Willow Time Trial finished kinda strange. Last year I knew nothing about riding a TT other than sticking a pair of aerobars on my old bike and riding as hard a I could. This year I was on an honest to god TT bike (BMC) with some borrowed wind cutting whack em and stack em wheels that I borrowed from Daryn. I put in a couple training rides before the Time Trial and went to bed confident that I had prepped all I could.
I woke up, ate a good breakfast, and arrived at Willow Metro Park in advance of the rest of the team and shot out a text message to let Danny know where I had staked out some pavement for us to warm up. I spent a lot of time thinking about what I could do to warm up. I knew after a year to riding that I dont even feel right until we have been riding for half an hour...that was about the total amount of time it would take to ride the 20k TT. I essentially used the Carmichael Training TT warm up as my guide only I extended the time. But I had to do two efforts that would red-line my heart rate in order to get the lactic acid flushing and my heart and lungs ready...that really worked well. Half way through the TT I was a little giddy that my warm up worked so well, not that I wasnt balancing the pain in my legs and the inability to get enough air, but that I was spinning and picking off one rider after another. The wind was almost the same as last year, right out of the SE, it drilled you into the saddle and forced smaller rings for the last couple turns. I had a good ride, I cut 3:30 off of last year's time (a lot due to the BMC TT rocket), but the strange thing is that I felt that I would have finished higher (damn ego) I find it funny how I become delusional in what I am capable of doing until the results are posted...reality is a great motivator for extra miles. Next up is the LJ 100. Tonight, a glass of wine before I look at what Kucharski has in store for training. Cheers!

RESULTS