4-23 OTR Mountain 8 Race

Uh, fast first 20 seconds or so. there was about 8 of us going into the tunnel, two took off in the dirt. I could have caught them but I knew that would make me pop during the climb. When we got to the moountain, I was quickly in about sixth to eigth place. There was one guy who just stayed ahead of me and one I see-sawed with. By the top of the Epic, I was sitting in sixth about 15 seconds either way. It quickly turned into almost a minute ahead of me and a minute behind. In the end, I was 33 seconds behind fifth place. a good pace, I think, for me 58:37.

272 watts on the climb 26:43. I figured out to be under 30 minutes at 260. So happy with that.
301 to the climb 2 6:57, 19:16 to the turn, 6:51 to tower, 1:19 down and 0:20 to banner. after the descent 10:42, it was 13:12.7 2 @ 257 watts (253 + 307 last minute).
Overall average, not counting downhill was 47 @272 which is exactly my FTP. Yeah. I would have liked to finish stronger, but I was only pulling a few seconds back on the rider ahead of me. If I had gained from 4-2 km to go, I would have given more to catch him. But mostly, his w/kg stayed at mine or above. I did gain about 10 seconds from the base of Epic. Overall, a good race for one that is totally against my grain as a short TT specialist. Good result for 6th place.

Now, onto division rating tomorrow, I think.