Well, it's the last ride until the 40k Tri ride next Sunday. I went down to the river trail to knock out 40 miles. Nothing new to report really. Same trail, same expected results. There were a lot of people out on a pretty gloomy cool morning. I sat in front of Alex the entire way and finished in 1:57:10. Average speed was 20.7 mph I think. Had to slow down a number of times due to the groups of people out but my finish time was in the range I expected. That's not bad considering it's only 7 minutes behind the grueling paceline ride I was in weeks ago. I think I'm coming along pretty well as a solo effort rider.
Had a few egos to contend with on the trail too. One older guy pulling two people my age and a guy from Inland Inferno Tri Club that thought he was hot stuff on his expensive tri bike with expensive Zipp wheels. Both blew by me a couple times and then would slow down to a speed less than what I was doing. They would constantly look behind them every 10 seconds or so to check where I was. It was quite annoying every time they did it. So on the last bridge as we crossed, they did it again and I blasted them for the last 2 miles. Didn't see either of them once we hit the turn around point for a few minutes.
I laugh in my head when people pull that sort of thing because it's always some guy on some super expensive bike and it just goes to show that most of the equation is about the rider and not how expensive the bike is. I don't consider myself a world class rider by any means, and I'm sure I'd fall off the back of a surging crit. group after awhile but it's all still the same. If nothing else it's a pat on the back to me for just being a better rider.
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lots of egos out there...lots. It really is amusing most of the time, but it can definitely get annoying too! I've slowed up on occasion, simply to avoid that back n' forth game that ends up happening when someone is just killing themselves to "beat" you. Too funny!
Sounds like you're doing great on the bike - keep it up!
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