Good training ride tonight. We started with a group of 10 uprights and 3 recumbents (two lowracers and me on my new highracer.) I started behind and had to run at 26+ mph for the first mile and a half to catch up. The group ran at between 22 and 25 mph for the next 6-7 miles, before hitting a series of small hills. One, 19 miles out, I refer to as "KickAss Hill." It looks mild-mannered, but the uprights *always* drop me on it. Tonight I stayed with them, setting a new PR for speed at the top. Then, on the 2nd hill after KA, I put the hammer down, passed all of the uprights on the climb, and dumped them to death on the downhill. After that, they chased me for 15 miles, but they were doing good to keep me (barely) in sight. On the last 4-mile stretch, I lit both afterburners and held 28-29 mph the whole way, kicking it up slightly to 30 mph for the sign.

One of the lowracers sucked my wheel and beat me on the sign sprint, the other one got dropped on KickAss and limped in after I'd cooled off. Overall, I averaged 23.3 mph, about a mph better than I've ever done on that course. So about now, I'm going WOO-HOO!