No Sun this morning
Today the women's team did our first early morning TTT practice. Leaving from campus at
6:30 am, sharp, there was a record 8 women braving the heavy fog and drizzling rain.
Usually morning TTT practices are my favorite. When we leave everything is quiet. We feel like the only people on campus awake (possibly true). In the soft dawn we head out into the rolling wheatfields and, as we fly above the asphalt smoothly pacelining, the sun rises on our side and we laugh with the singing birds.
Ha! Not this morning, let me give you the current weather conditions for Walla Walla, humidity: 100%, cloud cover: 100%, temp: 45°F, visibilty: poor. Doing a TTT in such conditions creates an odd skunk effect on riders. Your rear wheel kicks up water and mud so you have a mud stripe running up your back and, since you're riding 2 inches behind your teamate, their rear wheel kicks up a spray of mud that leaves a mud stripe down the front of you & in your face. I love early morning rides, in any weather!
6:30 am, sharp, there was a record 8 women braving the heavy fog and drizzling rain.
Usually morning TTT practices are my favorite. When we leave everything is quiet. We feel like the only people on campus awake (possibly true). In the soft dawn we head out into the rolling wheatfields and, as we fly above the asphalt smoothly pacelining, the sun rises on our side and we laugh with the singing birds.
Ha! Not this morning, let me give you the current weather conditions for Walla Walla, humidity: 100%, cloud cover: 100%, temp: 45°F, visibilty: poor. Doing a TTT in such conditions creates an odd skunk effect on riders. Your rear wheel kicks up water and mud so you have a mud stripe running up your back and, since you're riding 2 inches behind your teamate, their rear wheel kicks up a spray of mud that leaves a mud stripe down the front of you & in your face. I love early morning rides, in any weather!
posted by LAV at 09:10
2 Comments:
Laura, please translate TTT for us non-cyclists. Thanks. And apparently there are only four Iron Women entered in Saturday's Ridge to River. Everyone will miss you!
TTT= Team Time Trial. Each team of 3-4 women starts 2 minutes apart and rides the, usually out and back, course together. The time for each team is taken when the front wheel of the 3rd team member crosses the finish line.
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