The sun is shining, the snow is melting and I'm back on line. I know it's been ages since my last post, but I've had training to do! The last time I wrote I had just finished up the cyclocross season and was looking ahead to the Australian national road championships.
Well, my plan of dropping a few kilos for nationals didn't work out as well as I'd hoped. GreenEdge (the new Australian pro team) turned up in force and demolished everyone. Of 161 starters only 21 finished. Needless to say I wasn't one of them. I barely made it 50km into the 160km race. After being dropped on the fourth lap the little group I was with were pulled off the course after the fifth lap.
In an effort to be able to stay with the race on the climb I'd lost 3-4 kilos in the month before the race. Unfortunately I lost some power along with the weight. Power that I sorely missed during the time trial. My 20th place in the TT was exactly the same as last year. While I was a bit more than a minute faster than last year in, much more difficult conditions, I had hoped for better. For those interested in such things, my average speed was 44km/hr and my average power output was 318 watts (4.54watts/kg).
Anyway, that's enough of the short stuff for now. My focus has switched entirely to the 4,800km time trial that is the Race Across America. Only 13 weeks to go!
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