Mother Nature obliged our TTers tonight with warm, humid and a NW breeze the receded to light intermittent puffs.  Great conditions for a TT..  Especially for September!

We had a season high of 14 TTers show up to do battle with course.   Perhaps it was the combination of the good weather and some inspiration from the Tour de France.   

Tiago Barreira was disappointed he had miss-judged the weather for last Tuesday's TT and vowed to make it this week.  He carved up the course in his usual fashion in a FMT time of 22:11 (27.05mph) - only 11 seconds from his PR.  Amy Kneale smashed the course in a time of 24:25 (24.57mph) and in doing so, lowered her PR by 25 seconds.  She is now only 20 seconds from the women's Course Record set by Erika Zazzara.  

Fastest Junior boy  - Kaleb Toscano 27:25

Fastest Junior girl - Mariana Rinaldo  28:16 (5 sec from PR)

Other notables:   PRs were set by Chris Lamothe (33 seconds lower), Sean Kesselring (another 7 seconds) and Dick Rybinski (8 seconds lower).  Gordy Pynn attended his first TT in several years and set his best time in the RoadAero division 25:41.  Currently Ken Toscano has the fastest 2020 RoadAero time of 25:34.  

Tour de France:  It's been an exciting TdF this year even without Froome and Thomas.   Even the flattish stage 7 provided amazing drama with Bora Hansgrohe working so hard for hard to split the field by the intermediate sprint for Sagan, only to see him get nipped at that line and then to have him drop his chain 50 meters from the finish line to finish 13th.  It was enough to give him the green jersey til?  Not saying.  

There are so many difficult mtn stages this year that there is no guarantee that when a rider gets the yellow jersey, that he'll not have a single off day and lose it.  

Coming stages - mountains and more mountains...   Lumpy Thursday, Mtn top finishes Friday and Sunday. On Sunday, the Grand Colombier over 10 miles at 7.1%  - approx 4100 ft of climbing.  Incredible.  

And the 3rd week... more Alps.  This has to be one of the hardest Tours. Well since the roads were paved.

Hopefully American "youngsters" Powless and Kuss can continue to perform well.  

Enjoy!

Brian

TT DIrecteur