In a moment of weakness, Tanya talked me into going in the ACT time trial championships on the weekend. She said it be good preparation for the Tour of Bright which I, also in a moment of weakness, have agreed to enter. As you would expect for someone who had no idea, no preparation and no warm up I was miles off the pace which included Michael Carr. Reasoning that I was going to come last anyway I went to the pub the night before and that probably didn’t help either. Then of course there was no time trail trail bike, no aero bars and most significantly of all, no pointy helmet with dimples that create wind-cheating go-fast vortices.

I also didn’t have a skin suit but I am not too sure about that. Tanya wore her $20 skinsuit and had to suck in her stomach for the 30 minutes of her time trial.

Regardless I did get a good photo, it was a beautiful day, and a nice deaf man held my bike for me at the start of the ride. I think he was deaf because when I thanked him for holding my bike he didn’t say anything.

Best of all, I had a nice doze in my car before the start courtesy of a friendly man who gave me the wrong start time and told me to go and have a sleep in my car (hence no warm up). The sun was out, the sky was blue and there were birds chirruping away. There were some Defence Cycling Club guys prattling away nearby and they were annoying until I pretended they too were birds and they melted away into the background.

I’m looking forward to next year.