Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

I've seen a lot worse. I mean, -I- am a lot worse. Is your PM calibrated?

Jesus wept, that's nearly WT power levels.

Or maybe your number pinning is costing you around 50W? :P

Wait, I need to calibrate my PM?!

What is it? Bare in mind, if you answer 'Strava' I'm going to have to ban you...

Hang on, haven't we already have this convo in another thread?

Oh, probably! Stages, which I calibrate every ride. Although I do have a Tacx trainer that reads pretty consistently.

Also, did anything fall off your bike?

Nah, it was the valve tape. It came unstuck and was slapping on the stays making a horrible racket. I thought there was a train on the road about to kill me!

Stages

Are you only pedalling with your left leg?

I could hear this very faint creaking noise coming from between my arms on outleg of the H10, only for my poorly torqued stem to pitch the bars forward 45 deg at the turn. The marshall said "oh my giddy aunt" as I tried to wrench them back into position through the roundabout.

After you've bought yourself a torque wrench, get yourself a P2M, SRM or Powertap. Then you can spend more time training coz you won't have to keep answering "what meter?!" questions :P

Not for long

shudders 2 x bad = ?

I've not watched it (so I don't know anything about the guy or his setup) but TTF suggests that Project 49 rider did his 49min off only 283W, though he did have a few rides on the same course and someone else suggested the course might vary 2-3min with atmospheric conditions.
http://www.timetriallingforum.co.uk/index.php?/topic/123025-project-49/&page=2

Supposedly 2 x 1%! Yeah, I don't believe it either.

Not sure I really want to watch it given I'm not going to go under 50, but good on him to have the tenacity to keep repeating the same course until the conditions were right.

I wonder how close he lived to it though? It's 3hrs driving each way for me, which is the only reason I bothered racing at all last time - I'd driven out to the bastard may as well ride it.

It's a fooknof a long way, even further if you're doing the v881/r25/3h combo next weekend, I'm hoping with a lift share next week I don't feel the need to tear my eyes out by the end!

I thought there was some chat a few pages back about nutrition for a 100 but I can't find it now.

What do people recommend/expect to use themselves?

I was thinking 1.5l of energy drink in a bladder down my skin suit, and as many as 8 gels (in IM racing I used to aim at a gel every 30mins)?

Anything I do needs to be sorted out this afternoon as I'm just back from hols and I start at 0817 tomorrow.

I'd want 2l really. Don't want to be running out.

Gel every half hour is plenty if they're big ones like ZipVit.

Fast day on the E2 today. I was not fast - set my bike up in a hurry and had brake rub on the rear. Currently sulking all the way home as average power was within 2w of my FTP so couldn't have gone any harder.

Some guy drafted me for about 3km near the start when I overtook him. Should I report him? Couldn't look me in the eye in the hall afterward.

Should I report him?

Yes. Although it's unlikely to have any effect unless somebody else spotted it, your corroboration might be useful if somebody else did notice.

Strava Flyby evidence?

At least you got to ride, h10/8 abandoned after someone had an accident before they'd even started. Hope they are ok.

accident

Collision rather than accident, which is not to say I have any idea who made the mistake. I take the fact that the plod had cleared off before 1600h as a positive sign, but it was obviously not trivial because the ambulance service was there for over an hour.

Didn't the organiser have to deal with an accident in a previous event as well? If so, that's very unlucky on his part. Hope the rider concerned is Ok.

@Cycliste and I headed up to Hull today for our first race on the V718. @Cycliste took 30s off her 10m PB to get with about 30 seconds of the women's club record. I took 1m19s off my 10m PB with a time of 19:55. Sub 20 minutes. Now feeling very, very smug.

Chapeau!