The Texas “Hill Rabbit 1000” Mile TT and its two internal loops

Jim Roche, The Texas “Hill Rabbit 1000” Mile TT and its two internal loops, 2006, graphite and color pencil on paper, 33 x 36 inches. Collection of Jim R. Jard, Houston, Texas.

Museum: T.T. — time trial, and the number is how many miles long, and, it is a race, right?

JR: No, not a race. A time trial. Well, it is, if it is like the oldest on-going race in the world, on the Isle of Man. That is a T.T, a time trial, where you have a certain distance. In that case, the IOM (Isle of Man), it is thirty-seven miles and you run it six times. You are going for timing, how quickly you can do that. It is not like a rally, where you establish a speed you want to get to. The time trial is where you are running on real world roads. It is not enclosed track. In that way, it is really what “road racing” used to be before it moved to tracks.