Lake Piru 20K Time Trial - Last Race before World Transplant Games

Lake Piru 20K Time Trial, 35.15. I feel good about today's time, my third best overall to date, given my training and work schedule over the last two weeks. I've been working more and training less. I had Kinga's friend Amy and her film crew come with me today to shoot my preparations. It's a project for Amy's directing class at UCLA, but I can also use the footage for ZacharyBrooks.com. I prepared well today by riding 20 minutes and riding almost half of the course. Next time, depending on my conditioning, I may ride the entire course as a warmup. I still need to improve my pre-race stretching and post-race cool down. Still, I'm doing much better than before. Today I focused on keeping my head down and not using my gears so much. I did a good job with keeping my head down, but I was inefficient during the first quarter of the race. My split was 17.50. I finished the second half of the race 17.25. There was a headwind on the way out that was tough to work through. I did a good job on the climbs on the way back by zigzagging up the hills. It cut off the climbing grades and allowed me to keep some momentum. I just didn't have the reserve power I had last month, but as the last significant race before Australia it was a solid ride.