Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

Try 4:00:09. I could have given up 100s if I'd gone 10 seconds quicker in my first one.

Well I'm not sure what @hippy has done for/to the officials

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ha ha

How did you both get on?

1:53:59 for me, 1:51:39 for Hippy I think. 12 minute PB for me heh.

My pb still stands at 1:00:00... Hopefully doing something about that over the next two weekends.

Well done on the pb!

1:53:59 for me, 1:51:39 for Hippy I think. 12 minute PB for me heh

Drat, I didn't get the biggest PB margin today either! Nice one @umop3pisdn !

Still embarrassed at going full time trial wanker with my stockings yesterday.
God knows what the general public think just trying to get to see their nan for sunday tea when driving down what is basically a motorway.

Playing fucking havoc with my tan lines

As a cyclist, you just have to accept you look like a nob, or will look like a nob.

The sooner you accept that, the better.

@umop3pisdn I feel my getup is lacking gloves, what are the approved gloves?

Then maybe I just need some knee covers!

I think these are the xav approved gloves:

http://www.decathlon.co.uk/700-aerofit-cycling-gloves-black-blue-pink-id_8327112.html

Just exhibit some of the self-control I'm famous for and I'm sure you'll be fine...

Bad advice! I should have stayed on the beers in Prague. Knee started playing up after just 12 miles, so I sat up and was going to pedal back to Bentley. But, as I turned off the A31, I realised I'd feel utterly pissed off if I just did that - and it was a nice day, I was out in the country with a bike, and knee was ok when out of the aerobars. So I went for a ride in the lanes.

There was some running event on with arrows, so I followed them for a while until they disappeared. Did a few inevitable main road bits but lots of quiet villages and deserted lanes. Even had a ford at one point (which I walked round as I reckoned the water might unstick my wheel covers). Came back via other lanes and then re-found the runners' arrows. Then the runners, hundreds of them all over the road - with helpers diving across to give them drinks. Negotiated that and got back to Bentley with just over 50 miles, in a minute under 3 hours. At least I'd had an enjoyable ride - and might not have been much quicker if I'd stayed on the course.

Yup. Or the Castelli offering is probably fine too.

I really like the Pearl Izumi aero glove, but they seemed to have stopped making it.

Sucks eh? Where did you leave behind the 3s? :)

I've lost a 12hr by 800 yards and missed the club 12hr record by 900 yards.

Then I smashed its back doors in by 20 miles so I guess I should be happy.

See TTF.

Dan Ess promised me cake if I beat my course best (set the day after the infamous Norf 100).

I knocked 12 minutes off it so I had a bloody lovely piece of Guinness chocolate cake.

The ride itself was grim. I was broken from the start (glutes and dead left leg came back to haunt me) and had dipped about 20W off my best power and then when I noticed it might be close to a PB I lifted for the last 10mi but missed by overall PB by 30 seconds.

Haha... you've got audaxes on the brain or something.

thanks

Anyone ridden the U30/10? Is it fast?

Also wonder if I should give the H10/181 another crack? I think it was my old PB course.
http://www.timetrialcourses.co.uk/course/h10_181

Then again Pettinger has only done a 19:24 on it.

Try ride the f11/10 on a good day. For a good 10 time.
I reckon it's 30sec faster than e2 on a decent day.

Those times people did there saturday put it maybe 45sec on the e2 in the afternoon.

There should be spaces for the F11 rerun. Think it's June?

Or just do some training and not get sucked along by cars for a cheat time!
But that's hard work.

Hey Scilly - sorry totally missed this - very kind offer thanks. Having thought about it I'm going to get a session with Xav booked in asap and then worry about kit afterwards. Judging from the advice I've had from various people it seems to be the sensible way round of doing things. Cheers though!