Tonight I decided I had cleared enough of the cold that had plagued me over the last week and I was capable of giving the weekly time trial a go. Rain all day and wind into double figures and gusting didn’t make for good conditions but the rain cleared for an hour or 2 before the start so I grabbed the bike and he added on down to the start. Usual 10 minute 80% warmup with a couple of race pace efforts and arrived at the start with 90 seconds to go. Perfect. Sadly this was the only perfect thing about the night. I suffered from the off and failed to find a rhythm into the headwind down the main straight. Average speed was down and I probably pushed too hard to get up to my usual pace but was being held back by body and wind.
The turn came eventually and I did find a bit of a tail wind briefly but when turning back onto the main road it seemed I was battling a headwind once more. I was due a poor run given some good performance recently. Hopefully I can put it behind me and return to form quickly then challenge my PB again.