Sunday morning was the Tantalus TT at 630am. Tantalus is in close proximity to my apartment so David and I rode over to the race start. Not much to report really... I went out, went hard, felt like I'd done enough, but lost to Alex Eiler. I rolled about a 18:57 based on my own timing, and Alex did an 18:38.

SRM File - 18:57 @ 351w, 7.15km, 83rpm, 13.86mph.

My time was good enough for 2nd place, and Alex placed 4th at yesterday Olomana RR which meant that I'd done enough to maintain my GC lead going into the Stage 3 Kaka'ako Criterium.

After the TT, I went home and took a nap for a few hours, ate some lunch at 12, then rode over to Kaka'ako for the 2pm criterium. After doing 90mins of criterium action at 30mph at Cascade, 50mins was going to be a lot of fun! The first lap was neutral, then about 200m into lap 2 I decided to attack hard. After throwing down a 1200w attack I was off solo and ended up being off the front for about 15mins riding at 365w / 27mph, the gap wasn't getting big enough so I eased up and was reeled in by the chasing peloton. Going into the Kaka'ako criterium, I had a 3 point lead over Alex Eiler. The points went 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 then 1, so my game plan from that point onwards was to mark Alex and make sure that I finished no lower than one place behind. There were a lot of attacked towards the end of the race and I let Tony Lang and another rider go off the front to fight it out for the win. Alex and I played some cat and mouse with me taking the sprint for 3rd place, sealing the overall GC win for the third year in a row. Phew!

SRM File.