Dunlap ITT (State Championships)

Today was the district TT for juniors. All of us were there except for Joel, and all of us did 20k. For the 15/16s one of our biggest threats was the German quad-turbo diesel Alexander Freund. While I was getting ready I noticed that I forgot the spacer to make my SRM mount fit onto my handle bars, but Craig was there like he said he would be and had a smaller SRM mount that I could use. He also had wheels for us to use too! Thankfully these wheels came in handy because as I was warming up on the rollers, I heard the horrible sound of air seeping out of a tire and sure enough I had a flat on my front wheel, but Craig saved the day and let my use his über fast 808. Once that problem was fixed I hopped back on the rollers and my dad and I decided that it would be best to split the race into 3 intervals at 9 minutes each. For the first interval I would aim to hold 315 watts, then for the next 9 minutes I would aim for 350 watts and for the last 9 minutes I would push as many watts I could hold until the finish line. The first 9 minutes went well, but in the next 9 minutes I was not able to push as many watts as I had hopped. Thankfully it was a tail wind on the way back and my speed was able to stay at about 30-28 mph. This made the way back seem extremely short. I ended up crossing the line with a time of 27:40.5 but according to the parent's early calculations the German beast had beat me by about 30s. Lucky for me their calculations were incorrect and Alexander had a time of 27:47.96. James was third with a fast time of 28:29.09, and David was 6th with Alistair 7th (David = 29:14.17 & Alistair = 29:32.61) Chris and Marcus felt the effect of hard racing the day before and placed 14th (Chris) and 16th (Marcus.) For the 17/18s Charlie won with a crazy fast time of 25:54.67, Peter was 2nd (27:40.02), and Daniel was 5th (28:19.0) Below are all the podium photos, as you can see from the 17/18s photo, the race took everything out of Charlie and left only his jersey ;).