Time Trial day – Stage Three

Wednesday started later than the usual 6:30a breakfasts with an 8:30a meal. The first time trial in Hubbard was 12.9 miles on a rough and hilly road. Every rider rode the course leaving 30 seconds apart starting with the first riders of each team, then the second, then the third, each timed individually. It was pouring down rain again and thundering. Our picnic and community festivities were canceled after the race due to weather so we ate our Subway lunch in the van before driving the two hours to Truro where the Criterium will occur where each rider, again broken in groups of 3 based on times from the morning time trial, will race 6 laps around a city block. Groups of 35 will run in three heats.

I’m having rare a moment of free time at a free trade coffee shop in Truro between Wednesdays time trails so will hopefully get to post again with an update on tonight’s race. We have not had much internet access in these remote Nova Scotia accomodations.