Floyd Landis Challenge TT

Saturday, June 30th, the weather was perfect, 75 degrees, little wind, clear, sunny. The start of the TT was at the Riverview Elementary School in Marietta (west of Lancaster). This is a 28 mile race with each racer leaving at 1 minute increments. About 10 entrants were there for a 10AM start. At 9:45 AM there were questions about the route and since it was not painted I volunteered to Race/Paint with a 10 minute head start I went out with a can of paint to put down arrows at each turn so there would be no question of where to turn and no one would be lost. We had 2 small climbs in each direction, Chickies Rock and Turkey Hill, the rest of the route was rolling with very little traffic. Somehow I stayed out in front even with painting arrows and taking about 5 minutes at the turn around deciding where the safest and best place would be. Thanks to Mike Ridgeway for hosting a great race for "CycleSmart".