The Hour Record

My suggestion was an air horn to the face in the home straight until you slow down properly. There's really no excuse for the rider or coach to let him go out that fast, it was far too fast even for a 53km schedule (which was never going to happen).

12min in it was all over, I was expecting him to stop to be honest so full credit for keeping going. They really mustn't have done their homework/enough training (his bike was built weeks ago, not months) and instead gone off some very bad calculations.

Sorry overlooked the link

No need to apologise!

Obree is telling Bobridge to try again (suggesting 4-5 days rest).

He'd need to make sure it was no more than 5 days, Dennis is doing his this weekend

Only an issue if Dennis increases the record..

Go Jack!

Go Rohan!

Dennis has an advantage being at slight altitude, and the benefit of seeing how catastrophic messing up your pacing would be, so I'd expect him to do better:

https://twitter.com/xavierdisley/status/553150931177836545

So do I but failure is still a possibility. And I'd love for Jack to have another crack and then Dennis could beat it so they both held the record. To come so close and not have another go before it's shelved would be upsetting.

it was far too fast even for a 53km schedule (which was never going to happen)

According to Hutch, he was scheduling for 54.5km and hoping to get the 5k and 10k records on the way. If true, that would explain things a bit.

That's silly. No one gives a fuck about intermediate records.

According to Hutch, he was scheduling for 54.5km

If true, that was shockingly ill judged.

I can't believe that's true, that's 4:24 IP pace. The second they did any training they would have known that he couldn't have kept that up for more than about 10-12km.

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Look at the footage, note times, note Decker's position, estimate schedule?

"National high performance coach Tim Decker revealed after the attempt that he and Bobridge had set a target distance of about 52.5km"

Read more at http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/jack-bobridge-underestimated-record-155270#9BbPKhUzIhwvc3iX.99

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=OwHHhdIyuz0

There's a man who's come from an Australian summer to a Swiss winter.

Ski goggles though? WTF?

I would like a BMC hoodie.

Doesn't that graph probably show experience? Voigt got faster towards the end because he had kept his powder dry.

Was another factor for Bobridge perhaps that the other two did it at the end of a season and he at the start/early in the season? (I assume that he wouldn't keep a very different season despite being in the southern hemisphere?)

Or Team Bobridge completely misunderstood what sort of form/fatigue to expect after finishing a week long stage race only a few days before his attempt.

"He [Bobridge] said himself that he’d recovered very well."

Perceived recovery, or quantified?

It's interesting that both Voigt and Brandle abstained from racing for a few weeks before their attempts.

Racing <> Pacing

The more I read about Bobridge the less I think he gets it. Some recent comments where he implied that was just his style of riding and he'd do it again - madness.

I'm off to Amsterdam tomorrow to do some work for Belkin/LottoJumbo, he rode for them when they were Rabobank and what he did isn't a surprise to some of the staff!