Yesterday was the Hawaii State TT Championship... Individual, and official (USA Cycling) hosted by Quick Release / Bikefactory on the Malaekahana course. 40km of fun. The past week had really good weather, but I got a call from my team mate Shannon at 5am on Sunday to let me know there was 2" of rain on the freeway. Not ideal weather conditions... I'd have liked no, or very little rain, and minimal wind, but we had too much of both!

I got to Malaekahana at about 615am. Picked up my race number and timing chip (Finally, a race with timing chips!), got in a spin on the TT bike, then lined up as third rider to hit the road.

First guy on the road was my team mate Casey Tucker, my 30 sec man was Dan Miller. I caught Dan a mile or two into the course, but it took quite a bit longer to catch Casey who was on a damn good ride! Unfortunately for me, I didn't feel so awesome. Based on previous results I expected to catch Casey before the turnaround, but that didn't happen. The course had quite a bit of wind to deal with and I spent a lot of the race fighting with my 1080 front wheel. The most exciting part of the outward segment was having to slow down for a dog that walked across the road in front of me at Hauula.

I got my first glimpse of Casey after he had made the turnaround and chased him down at 30-33mph riding back to the finish. I finally caught Casey on the run into Laie, and emptied the tank over the final 1.5 miles of the race.

My final time was 55min 18sec and I thought there was no way I had won the race. I felt like I rode like shit. Fortunately I squeaked out the overall fastest time by 10sec over Ray Brust, and about 30sec ahead of Tony Lang. Phew, State TT champ for another year!

BME Racing was well represented with Shannon O'Shea, Casey Tucker, Voytek Szymanski, and myself all taking our respective State Champ categories, and Darryl Perry took home the silver medal in his age group.