Time Trialling on my Cross Bike

Soo i havent blogged anything in what feels like ages, and i have done quite a bit of cycling and fitness stuff over the past couple weeks to report on. I just havent found the time to write anything, what with trying to make the most of the british summer consisting of 10 days of brilliant sunshine.
  I wasnt too sure with what i shall start with as most of it seems like old news. Im going to put it up anyway but i will start with the latest news.

Last Thursday 2nd Aug i decided to take part in the local 13mile time trial held by Plymouth Triathlon Club. The course is a fairly challenging 13 mile loop with a fair bit of uphill followed by a hopefully nice run downhill to the finish (i say hopefully for a reason ill explain in a bit)
The reason why i wanted to do this, is to see where my fitness is after a couple weeks of training, to see if iv achieved anything and what i need to focus on in the next few coming weeks.

Here is how the course looks from an elevation view.

This shows just how hilly it is  and shows the long downhill to finish. You would think this downhill was easy but there is apparently always a headwind and this time around it was a very strong headwind. I found this quite difficult and just felt like i couldnt get in a decent aero position to make the most of it... probably because im on a cross bike with no TT extension bars.
Heres the map of the course.

Erminton s3/13s TT course

The info that i have here is all from my garmin Edge bike GPS that i got from koo-bikes

Im pretty happy with how the ride went, i wanted to be under 40mins and i did that fairly easily. Also i didnt quite know how to pace my self as i didnt know the course so i think i can still get a fair bit out of that time today as i know where i can push it that little bit more.
The next one is the first thursday of september so im going to do that one. With a bit of luck, ill drop my time by a minute.