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October 2009 
SoCal State TTT Champs
Posted on Jun 3rd, 2009
by 
Cara
Cara
After much cajouling, I convinced Lana (TT superstar) to do the two-woman TTT with me. Although "fun" doesn't describe it, we did win, by a very nice margin.
As in the TT, there's not that many highlights in a flat TTT. We hadn't practiced at all and decided to mostly wing it. We decided that I would go first off the line, since I have a better jump. Ha. Having a jump is useless. I jumped, settled into a pace considerably higher than my solo tt effort the week before, only to hear Lana yell "up, up!" and then come flying past me. This was not going to be fun. By the first corner (maybe 9km) I felt like my insides would come out in a very bad and messy way (especially since my skinsuit is almost all white). Afterwords we discussed this: I like to go out on the easy side of a violent effort, while Lana likes to go out hard and maintain. Ah...so that's how you dominate in a tt. sigh.
I won't talk anymore about the violent effort. It's mentally difficult though. Sitting in position two is so nice, sitting in position one is worse than hell, especially when the person behind you is faster and constantly remininding you to (up up up!). ugh
It worked out. Here's the proof:
Now off to Canada, eh?
As in the TT, there's not that many highlights in a flat TTT. We hadn't practiced at all and decided to mostly wing it. We decided that I would go first off the line, since I have a better jump. Ha. Having a jump is useless. I jumped, settled into a pace considerably higher than my solo tt effort the week before, only to hear Lana yell "up, up!" and then come flying past me. This was not going to be fun. By the first corner (maybe 9km) I felt like my insides would come out in a very bad and messy way (especially since my skinsuit is almost all white). Afterwords we discussed this: I like to go out on the easy side of a violent effort, while Lana likes to go out hard and maintain. Ah...so that's how you dominate in a tt. sigh.
I won't talk anymore about the violent effort. It's mentally difficult though. Sitting in position two is so nice, sitting in position one is worse than hell, especially when the person behind you is faster and constantly remininding you to (up up up!). ugh
It worked out. Here's the proof:
So rare that I'm on the top of the podium. Yay!
Now off to Canada, eh?
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