Lithgow

Team TRuDGe (Tyler, Rohan, David, Grant) had our first outing of the 2005 Working Week series last sunday. The series consists of 5 eight hours races, hence the working week moniker. Due to a very heavy rains they suspended the race around 3pm, around 6 hours into it. So each team member only did 2 laps. So there was no massive endurance race pain afterward. It just felt like a hard weekend ride. (but I did sleep very well sunday night....)

The race was in Lithgow which is about 40k west of Katoomba, (which is on the western side of the western side of the Blue Mountains), very pretty country.

Our team lap splits breakdown like the following. (Note: only lap 8, about 20 minutes into it is when it start bucketing down rain again...)

lap 1 51:41
lap 2 47:43
lap 3 47:43
lap 4 43:48
lap 5 45:20
lap 6 46:43
lap 7 42:47
lap 8 50:26
ride time: 6:16:14
lap 9 (waiting) 37:14
race called at 6:53:28...

next race is not until may, so that gives us time to continue training, or to quit training and get out of shape...we'll see.

I'll update a link to the official results when they are ready.