Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

Do you know the course?

Looking f*cking windy http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2646458?day=1

Should certainly make things interesting. Hoping this means being a heavie rider will be advantagous.

Managed 14th in the TT, 50 seconds down on the leader. Was pretty pleased, passed a guy on a full rig with v.nice lighweight disc. Course was fairly hilly so thing road bike & TT bars was a fairly good choice

It was bastard windy today. Good work.

+1

Worryingly think i could be a pretty good tester. Considering a gimpboot purchase.

It was bastard windy today

True, slogged into it on the H10/8 this afternoon, looking forward to flying back, then had a mechanical just after the turn. Out of four 10s I planned this week, I managed 1½. #fml

A mechanical on a bike with a single gear and brake?

See your name down for the Newbury 12 @hippy
What are you targeting?

(Apart from winning it)

Comp record.

Anything else would be a failure.

Stretch goal is >300mi
Happy goal would be PB.
Likely result is DNF and a sulk.

Topham will win it.

Holton is racing, and has beaten him at the shorter stuff. Will be interesting.

No chance. Even if I was close to the Comp record (which I'm not) it was set on a faster course by a faster rider. Topham's done a 306 on the Comp record course but 'only' a 295 or 297 or something on the Newbury. He'll smash it this year though. I'm still struggling with a cold and this morning's 25mi was shortened to a 10mi - even with theoretically faster kit I went slower on it than I did in April. Not that 10s share anything with 12hrs but I expected to do better. :S

Has he ever raced a 12hr?

My H25/2 curse continues. Roads falling apart left, right and centre and these gumbies can't even fill a little hole around a drain, instead they've got time to set up cones and two-way traffic lights and slow everyone down for an entire weekend.

Yeah 12hr record won't go until the Breckland course starts being used again.

Was it the Good Friday event you rode or the Westerly CC Hippy? I did the same time as as the Good Friday 10 today with 20 watts more and 6 seconds faster than the Westerley CC with 13 watts more.

I don't think so, so obviously a bit of an unknown.

I'm just grabbing my files now. Hang on a second..

I did a 20:53 at the Lesley Cole Memorial

That was definitely a faster day

21:09 today with what should have been faster kit. But I reckon my pacing and anerobic fitness were fucked.

Well, that's interesting. I actually made more power with supposedly faster shit yet I was slower.

Barometric pressure.

Seemed like less traffic today...