Leading up to Sunday’s NYSTT championships things sort of went like this…
“Hey, you goin to the TT on Sunday”
“Maybe. Are you?”
“I will if you do”
“Okay, I just registered”
“Me, too. See you at your place Sunday morning.”
Sunday morning I pull up to Bob’s house ready to tranfer my gear into his minivan when Bob runs out to tell me not to unload yet, Olympic track racing is on the tube. So, we watch a heat or two of some sort of track event, contemplate staying in and ordering up a round of bloody Mary’s and just say we road the TT. We finally loose our senses completely and decide to head out to Auburn to race the New York Sate Time Trial Championships.
Actually, I was kind of psyched to race again. Although I hadn’t pulled out my TT bike all year, but I looked forward to something different (even though the TT is by far my worst event). The weather was perfect, the venue was relatively close to home, and Bob and I hadn’t done a road trip in a while. So, all was good…pretty much.
Bob was whining as he does, that he wasn’t in the mood to put a hurt on himself, but I knew once the clock started he’d put the hammer down. The course was tough – rollers all throughout, and the wind was blowing from the left front on the way home, but hey, we put in the effort. In the 45-49 category Bob finished sixth; in the 40-44 I finished seventh. But the big bonus was seeing Bob at the end of his ride sitting on the curb looking like someone mugged him with a sock full of quarters. You see, Bob, this is why I talk you into this silly events – to see you look worse than I feel! Ha!!
Seriously, though, it was a fun day and Bob rode well in a category that was loaded with really good time trialers. And hopefully it gave us both a little more motivation to work hard enough to get us through the last few races of the season.
