Cyclists vs Skiers

The Ride and Glide puts on weekly rides on tuesdays and once a month they host a TT in a small town called Withrow. Yesterday was a special TT that proceeds went to snow making equipment at Wirth park. They had some specail guests like Tim Mulrooney (TT specialist), Chad Gies (US ski Team member),John Munger (from the city of Lakes Loppet, Bill Dosset(from city of lakes Loppet), Piotr Bednarski (didn't show), Kevin Brochman (Former Olympic skier), and Ben Popp (Member of winning RAAM Team). I went over to the Thompsons because I was going to ride over with them. When I got there, John's bike had just been taken out of its box from cross nationals last year, and we were suppost to be out the door in 45 min. I told him to go eat and I'll wrench on it for him. Eric and I were ready and John decided to drive over. So Eric and I pretty much time trialed it over to Withrow in record time and caught the tail end of registration. They had a record 98 people signed up to race. I was 88th to go. The course was only 13.3 miles long but had plenty of rollers in it. Tim Mulrooney was 96th to go and he passed me like 10 min into the course like I was standing still. I was not feeling my best, and I was using muscles like I've never used them before. Towards the end Eric Thompson had me marked and caught me. I kept him within 100 yards to the finish. He ended up with the fastest time w/o TT bars 31:19 and 16th overall- avg speed 25.9mph. I rolled a 32:36 with a 26th overall and a 24.8mph avg speed. This was my first TT other than a Duathlon or a triathlon and my goal is to do a 30:00 even with no aero equipment. Eric said his legs were itching to get a good effort in since he has not raced in a while. He has been getting ready for college in either Colorado or North Carolina. Watch for him in the college standings soon. Oh, and since he got the fastest time w/o aerobars, he will be even faster because he just won an aerobar from HED. I didn't leave empty handed either. I won a nice white Swix beanie, a bag of cookies and some REX base wax. Tim set a new course record, 28:33 with a 28.3mph avg speed.


nothing like riding into the sunset after a hard race.Good times