2018 12 Hour World Time Trial Championship: Race Recap

So many thoughts & emotions, but I’ll try to keep this brief!

I came into this year’s 6-12-24 Hour World Time Trial Championships trying hard not to set expectations, but also wanting so desperately to defend last year’s title. After 8 weeks of non-weight bearing beginning in early August, I just didn’t know how much I could reasonably ask my body to give me. I have a STELLAR support team to thank for getting me back on my bike, and rehabbing and rebuilding fitness as quickly as humanly possible, while not rushing things to the point of re-injury: The Training Room (Phil Davis, Blaze, and the rest of the team know their stuff!), Austin Massage Company (both Massages AND recovery Yoga with Erica), My Coach, Matt Seagrave, who checked in nearly daily before updating my workout plans, and did a pretty darn good job of bringing my fitness level back up as much as possible, while working around so many injury-imposed restrictions, Cryo Wellness (Cryo, Infrared Sauna, and Hyperbaric Chamber), and use of a BEMER Mat (sponsored by Blood Flow Rocks). I owe this team SO much (including my sanity!), and can’t express my gratitude deeply enough.

I guess above all, I’m GRATEFUL. Grateful for the support of ALL of my sponsors, friends, and family, who believed in me and supported me throughout 2018 – through thick and thin!

• Grateful to be able-bodied enough to line up, start, and finish this race, despite the many setbacks this year has seen.
• Grateful for hubby Jamie Tracy that continues to support, love, and push me to be the best version of myself that I can be (also through thick and thin!)
• Grateful for a coach that invests so much of himself in my training and success, and knows exactly when I need to be pushed, AND when I need to rest/recover.

While yesterday’s race did not play out the way that I’d hoped, I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to leave it all out there. I’m grateful that my body gave me 8.5 solid hours of racing before beginning to fall apart. I’m grateful that I was able to coax it to finish out the full 12 Hours.

At the end of the day, I finished out VERY salty, and 3rd Place/11 Overall Woman in the 12 Hour TT.

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I may not be riding away from CA wearing rainbows this year, but I DID set a new weekly mileage & TSS PR last week, which included 2 amazing 11 mile climbs up The Glass Elevator, and a nice little 12 hour race, concluding in a Time Trialist’s version of a “Crit”… 😜… I’m celebrating every little victory because each baby step puts me that much closer to “whole” again… and I appreciate so much more the things that my body is capable of doing after being unable to do so many of them for what felt like forever but was really just the blink of an eye.

Media Coverage:

• Race Across America / 6-12-24 Hour WTTC Feature Post