TTT anyone?

Have I told you how much I hate Time Trials?  I do, I hate TT because I am not fast.  Andy and I should have a beer and talk about how much the TT sucks, how it is not for little guys like us, and on and on about the crazy bikes stupid hot helmets.  Not to mention the suits that lets everyone know what you are packin'.  What's that you say?  Light riders can TT?  No way.  Tejay Vangarderen?  Oh, well he dosen't count he's freaking out-of-this-world awesome.

Ok, so all I've got is a big ol' pile of ___.  -Excuses, excuses excuses.  I don't actively go out and do TT, I will only do them if they are local and if I don't have an excuse not to do it.  Because I hate the TT.  TT is a discipline that takes balls, and a willingness to put your body into a place that most people will never enter on their own.  The pain cave is nice compared to the depths that one must go when racing the clock.  Pain, Hurt, Dig, Effort, Exert, Destroy, Break, Deep.  I don't like to hurt, well not like that.

I have two teammates that have made the TT their drink of choice, and we recently had the chance to participate in a Team TT.  I was fortunate enough to be the third in the team of 3.  None of us have ever done a TTT so we went boldly where we had not been, we got in two practice runs this week leading up the the race today.  Not a lot of prep work, but these guys are steady wheels and a lot of fun to be with on rides.  Our first ride together went great and I had the best time riding with these guys.  Working together in rhythm like a precision machine is a feeling close to being in a breakaway trying to grow the gap.  It's fun.  Painful, but fun.

I had an absolute blast riding with my teammates on our training rides and then in the race today.  Having teammates to share the workload and to go through the pain together makes the TTT special.  We only had to have two riders finish, but we were not going to drop anyone.  We started together and we were going to finish together.  Did it hurt our result?  Doesn't matter.  What matters is that we worked together, stuck together, and finished together.  We were out there to have fun.  Thanks Robert and Jim for teaching me a lesson today. 

Finishing the way we started was more important to me than leaving a teammate on the road.  The most important thing that I hadn't counted on was the amount of fun that I had today.  Sign me up for the next one.