Steamboat Prologue TT

Today was the 4.5 mile time trial.  We were pretty rushed and showed up to the race site late, so I only got a 12-13 minute warm-up in.  I went easy for a few minutes, then few minutes hard, then 1/2 minute really hard, then easy for the rest of the warm up and felt ok.  This course was actually really technical and had a pretty significant climb.  The race included a short start sprint, a 1/4 mile uphill, then 1/2 mile climb, then a 2 mile or so descent, then a mile on the flat, then a 1/4 mile finish climb.

I went super hard on the initial part of the TT and I hit the climb already very anaerobic.  I stood up on the bike through most of the climb and felt good, but at the same time, I felt like there was a ball of lava in my throat.  At the top of the climb, I picked up the speed for the descent, but the descent was far more technical than I expected and I almost overcooked one of the sweeping corners.  I recovered and felt ok on the flat and the rest of the race.  I finished in 11:15, approx 1:28 behind the leader, at 34th of 43.  I gotta say that I'm disappointed in the result as I felt good in the race, but it is what it is.  This is the last road race of the year, so I was expecting to be in good form for the 'cross season, but it looks like I need some more work.

Tomorrow's race is the same course, just backwards, and we'll do 9 laps.  It's going to be very, VERY hard.  We'll see how it goes.