Herd Time Trial Series

 A series of eight short time trials on seven different worlds. How could I resist? However, Herd wanted a simple (dumb idea) points race. That will not work over six different time zones. So I am keeping the results myself.

I rode the first race a little bit slow, probably 30 seconds too slow for me. Week 2 and 3 were good efforts although I am still fighting for my spot. I went from 15th place to ninth and now sit in 5th by one second. "I'll get you BetteMidler!" It's a four way battle for fourth and tenth places. A few top twenty gals did not race all three events. You gotta do them all to count in this series. See you soon.

Week 3 Totals:                     Week 5                             Week 8

1 Lois Brewer         64:56         Irish         111:49           Irish  185:09

2 Tennile Irish         65:05        Brewer      112:07          Macrae 194:43

3 Angela Macrae     67:15        Kryder      118:13          KC        197:57

4 Katie C                 68:58        Macrae      119:02          Meskova  198:29

5 Zee Kryder           68:59        Katie         119:17          Akerblum  201:57

6 E. Akerblum         69:06        Meskova   120:42          Chalfont    202:04

7 F Vidler                 69:12        Leung       123:04          Leung      203:19

8 Zuzka Muskova     70:53        Quapp      123:26          Carden     204:56

9 Kate Lascelles       71:15        Akerblum  123:52          Scharf     206:43

10 Clare Spencer      72:11        Chalfont    124:09

11 Georgia Chalfont 72:20        Carden      124:58

12 Vicky Leung         72:23       Scharf       125:36

13 Susan Scharf        72:41

Week 4 saw three dropouts and one poor performance (moving from 6th to 10th). I put in the third best time and moved from fifth to fourth, More importantly, I am only 16 seconds off the third spot instead of nearly two minutes. There's a great battle for first place with Irish at 88:09 and Brewer at 89:26. Irish has a 314 ftp.

Week 5 had me pushing hard on those hills of Yorkshire for the third best time among quite a few in the 25-26 minute range. Irish beat Brewer by one second and it seemed the two dueled and sprinted for the line ahead of me (lol by over a minute) I moved into third place but victory is out of reach. I will still compete for the podium spot. But the big dream of winning is definitely over. 

Week 6 Myself and two others, Brewer and Quapp, bailed out on the series. I needed to take a day off and while I hate to quit. It just wasn't there and I didn't want to ride a survival race. There were other factors too. Oh well, just a race.

Week 8 Congratulations to the survivors. It was quite long. I did the eigth race and only lost a few seconds to my rivals but I was noticeably slower than average. Just a bit tired and undertrained. Time to tackle the Tour du Bore and fight for my second local legend, the very hard Libby Hill.