Author: Tom Saccone

Results for this evening’s TT.   Overcast skies, some light rain, light winds.

A nice turnout on a hot day on the night before The Tour’s mountain time trial.   13 assembled to grapple with Monroe County’s version of a descent into hell.  Jon Jacob came away with the overall at 20:37, just under the mythic 30mph mark!   Matt Plunkett was the first Merckx finisher and Sarah Sanders was the fastest woman.  Many thanks to Carl Field for timing.

I have to type my date of birth to get into this blog page.  It’s kind of annoying.  It was so very long ago.  I was the oldest rider tonight at WW.  Someone asked why I still ride with the very competitive group out here, turning myself inside out each Wednesday.  I replied, “Because I still can.”  But I know my place.  And it’s less and less about me now.  And that’s fitting.  I am fine with watching from the back, giving up my place in the paceline to a younger rider, albeit begrudgingly.  Watching this beautiful thing that we create each Wednesday night.  Like a beautiful painting, the more you look at it the more you see and knowing that only few know what to really look for.  Tonight about 30 riders came out to the art exhibit at 446 and Knightridge.  A tough and challenging 4 miler with two little power hills.  We agreed on 7 laps tonight.