Monday, February 26, 2007

Starting gates

The Individual Time Trial and Individual Pursuit events would use starting gates in 2007. Normally these events are hand started so a special training session had been organised, just one week out from the State Championships.

The muscle tear hadn't had time to recover from the Beaumont Rd crit, so the agenda was simply to get the timing correct and worry about the horsepower later. Flying 150m sprints were thrown into the mix to keep things honest. No problems there.

Managed to completely stuff up one of the starts. Got confused with the countdown and moved about 10cm forward when the gun went. Most embarrassing, but glad to get it out of the way outside of competition.

Four days to go and drive across the top of the pedal stroke is still only 75% at best...

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