Bike Path & Penny Rd

Testing has been ongoing these last couple days.  Monday was the bike path (fast, mostly flat skate TT) and yesterday was Penny Rd (point-to-point, mostly uphill classic TT).  These two tests were clear examples of the variability inherent to rollerski time trials - surprisingly slow times on the bike path, and absurdly fast times on Penny Rd.  We could look at these times and conclude that our seniors have regressed mightily in skate over the last few years while making huge leaps forward in classic, or we could just shrug and focus on how people looked and felt during the test.  I'm in the latter camp - I've come to accept that so many factors affect rollerskiing speed that we can't hope to control for all of them and produce a reliable, repeatable test that will yield meaningful data for year-to-year comparisons.  This is maddening for someone who loves data as much as I do, but what can you do?  In any case, we had a couple solid time trials - lots of people battling and looking sharp out there.  Here are results:

Bike Path
Tyler - 10:50
Jake - 11:04
Marshal - 11:18
Mac - 11:21
August - 11:39
Jackson - 11:46
Sam - 12:12

Shelby - 12:28
Ellie - 13:11
Louisa - 13:30
Rachel - 13:49
Margaret - 18:28

Penny Rd
Mac - 13:57
Tyler - 14:02
Jackson - 14:42
Jake - 15:07
Marshal - 15:39
August - 16:43
Sam - 16:54

H. Miller - 17:06
Shelby - 17:56
Ellie - 18:20
Louisa - 18:48
Rachel - 19:07
Margaret - 21:53

For what it's worth, Mac's and Hannah's Penny Rd times are both team records - who knows what that means, but a record's a nice thing to have!