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.