Racing Again

Somebody mentioned, at the race today, that I haven't blogged about the Southern Oregon TT Series. Okay Vern, I'll tell everyone that you've beaten me two weeks in a row now. I have raced the first two out of three races in the series and my times have improved over last year. Unfortunately Vern's times have improved as well. During cyclocross season if the course is mostly uphill I can usually beat him and if there are a lot of fast downhills he can usually beat me. These TT courses are up the hill, turn around and come back down the hill. Today he started two minutes behind me which has been his usual margin of victory over me. When I turned around at the top of the hill and started down I saw him coming up too soon. I knew that he would catch me and that would mean a two minute victory for him. I pushed myself beyond my comfort level going downhill and he didn't catch me until right before the finish line. What fun though.