Flat

Did the Racetrack loop today. It was raining this morning and I thought I might have my inaugural ride on the trainer but the skies cleared up. I was feeling pretty decent. Halfway through the ride I realized that I had a shot at my one hour watts record. I never go all out for an hour so whenever I get near this  mark it's in the context of a longer ride. Anyway I had just finished one of my 5 minute intervals of harder riding. Usually at this point I back off some. I was only 13 minutes from  the hour mark so I kept going  at a pretty good clip cruising along 156th ave at a wind aided 23+ mph.

Soon after hitting the one hour point I felt the bike wobble and I had a flat. Changing the tire was no problem. I removed this piece of glass and was back on the road in about 10 minutes. The break had given my legs a chance to rest but mentally it had robbed me of some momentum. Turning on to 53rd ave I was greeted with a decent headwind that forced my fatigued legs down to 15 mph at times.

When I came home and crunched the data it showed I missed my one hour watt record by one lousy watt. Still not a bad ride.