Ramblers Time Trial Championships 2007

[ehirsch83]

congrats road ravin!!! you are very inspiring and what a great way to finish the season with a PB.

[DirtDiva]

YEAH!

Good work.

[crazycanuck]

YYYAAAYYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy..wahoooeyyyy!!!

C

[RoadRaven]

Thanks Eden, ehirsch, DD and cc...

I am still rapt... still feeling so good about this.

I looked at last year's placings... (our club has around 300 members, but time trials have a lowish turn-out, and not many vet women - over 35years - compete)

13 vet women turned out for the 2006 CCTT, and I was 9th (7th in my category).
8 vet women turned out for the 2007 CCTT, and I was 3rd overall.

In 2006, I was 7minutes and 26seconds behind the fastest vet woman.
In 2007, I was 2minutes and 45seconds behind the fastest vet woman.

And I am still glowing with the knowledge that I have closed the distance between RW and me. I know Time Trials are about individual performance and personal bests... but to see how others did on the same day gives you a measure of your own performance.

And to close the gap by over 5minutes since June... oh, I feel so relieved... I really felt like I was getting nowhere... week after week after week of getting dropped and coming in last or near last in road races can be very disillusioning... this vindicates the training I have been doing, it vindicates me and I am very very pleased.

[SheFly]

YIPPIE! Congrats on a GREAT race, and the PB! You have worked hard all season, and definitely deserve to bask in the glow . Great progress over the season, too - it's always nice to see your hard work paying off.

Congrats again, Raven - you really deserve it!

SheFly

[RoadRaven]

Hey there SheFly... yeah, I do deserve it.
All year I have set up expectations for myself, dared to dream and hope, and then not achieved much at all.
I mean, I know finishing and competing is what I like - I am not saying I have had a bad year - cause I haven't, it's been fun - but it was hard some days cause I wondered if I was making any headway at all with my fitness and level/ability...

But I am so absolutely rapt with this (yes, I am still high as a kite over this - who needs "recreational drugs"? I took nothing except caffiene and am still flying 2 1/2 days later!).

I know you and the other racers know how this feels and I am glad I can share it. One day I'm gonna try doing a TT on the smoother roads of the US or the UK... bet I'll really surprise myself there!

Road~highasakite~Raven

[smilingcat]

Oh dear how could I have missed it...


Belated congratulation on your well deserved race. It sounds like you did it perfectly. Gave it all you've got without losing it at the end.

BIG BIG CHEERS...

Smilingcat