I did my first TT of the year last night. I've been living away from home during the week, so no time to do TTing until last night. Rode tandem with Andy, hoping to come in under 30 mins as I've still got the back end of a cold. I managed to stop coughing my lung lining out for long enough to get round the slower of the club 10s.
At the start, the marshalls were fairly new, so were slightly baffled at the tandem, but gave it a go and managed to hold us upright for the start. We ground away and were soon up to a decent speed. The course has a smallish hill at about 2 miles in which was a bit of a grind, but we pushed on and at 4 miles we could see our minute man. At the halfway turn I could see our 2 minute man was only just in front of the minute man. Hurting now. Pushing on we were closing on both 1 and 2 and as we approached 6 miles we overtook the first man but couldn't shake him off. At the small hill 2 miles from the finish we we were re-taken by our minute man, as we were also passed by the starter from 1 minute behind and we overtook the 2 minute man. We caught the minute man on the downhill and blasted away for the last mile. Rounding the final corner, the 3 minute man was only about 100 m in front, but too far.
Lung burning, thigh aching 25.14. 6th out of 22. My best time by about 3 minutes. Andy's best by 1 minute.