Vancouver Bicycle Club Time Trial

Thursday night I went over the river to Vancouver and did a time trial by Vancouver Lake. You sign in at the Port office (picture) and pay $1 and then go out on the road for the start. It's put on by the Vancouver Bicycle Club and has a guy holding you up so you're clipped in to start, another guy counting the start and a guy at the turnaround to try and watch for traffic. The starter guy then goes across the street and is the finishing timer. Works really well since it's a low traffic road on the edge of the industrial district. They do the time trial every Thursday from June to September- I just heard about it. It's 10 miles, so I went all out as much as I could having run Wednesday night. Between 4-5 miles was into the wind and I slowed from 20-22 to 18-19. After the turnaround I soared along at 23-25 until about mile 8, then 20-22 until the finish. Came across the line and my computer said 28:26 with an average of 21.1 MPH. When I walked back out to give them the number back, he said I did 26:29 which comes out to an average of 22.6 MPH. Next time I need to bring the running shoes, a good half the field went running after their ride. Flat empty road and a brick opportunity. While waiting in the starting line (every 30 second start), I talked to the young guy in front of me and he was going to do the Wisconsin Ironman in a couple weeks as his first ironman.