Heat wave, time trials and sunsets

So, has been a little strange here the last 3 days - it's been close to or above 100 degrees (38 c), a touch abnormal for Portland. Finally this evening it has cooled down. Most houses in Portland don't have A/C (mine included) but it is heat which is more on the dry side. Been killer, but glad it's down now, little rain tonight would not go amiss.

Crazy Sky Sunday.

Cool Sunset (Sun Eve) looks like LA dunn it?

Even with the high temps, still managed to get some riding in, did a little loop on Sat, prolly more than I should have right, but yeah 38miles or so. Then Sunday AM went out to a long stretch of road a did a time trial with some other Yakima riders. 10 miles, ride it as fast as you can. You might well be saying, why the bugger would you do such a thing at 8am on Sunday morning. - well the 8am is easy because it much much cooler out.
So why else would you want to do this.... well coming up is a wicked race, it's a 155mile unsupported team race hosted by the Rapha Continental blokes (Rapha is out of London ain't it), each team has 6 riders and since a whopping 11 people from my team wanted to do it, we had to sort out a way to decide who gets to go and what not. Needless to say, being one of the weaker riders on our team, I don't think i'll be doing it, but still wanted to try out anyway.

James laying full weight into the bike off the start line

There were 6 of us at this decider TT on Sunday and each one left with 1min interval, Final times were pretty close with less than 30 seconds betwen each one of us, still I ended up bottom of the pile :(. but i think I had a good ride, I did not burn out and shortly after passing the finish line I nearly puked, which is a good sign that you spent all your energy at the right moments.

What else? well it's the start of the Cyclocross season real soon and in fact we had our first team practice Friday lunch in a park near work, yeah were nuts, it was 89 degrees out, so we went and sweated it up like mad. Not sure how excited I am and all about the start of this season, but my bike is in working order, new tires, new bottom bracket and a smashing pair of wheels which you saw a few posts ago and i'm working on some new techniques for dismounting my bike before barriers, let's just say fixie meets cross,

Oh and another wicked sunset from my Saturday ride with Uma blog.
That's all for now, have a good one.