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@Ottomanotter
Managed to hit three evening club TTs and a few opens before the season ended. The position on the P3, as expected, isn't 100% and I kept slipping off the nose of the saddle, which looks from the pics above like it must have slipped mid race. Managed to win the club TTs and got a podium and a top 10 in the opens on pretty poor power so I think the position must be pretty slippery. The below pic was taken by the ever-present Davey Jones. I'm giving it some beans out of the turn so I'm right on the nose of the saddle which makes the position look a little more cramped than I think it is generally.
Enjoying the 58t 1x set-up and the Aerocoach chainring seems like a great bit of kit (although I wouldn't run it without a chainguide just in case – I don't have time to do many races each season and I can't take the risk of dropping a chain!). It's also my first foray into electronic gears and it was actually remarkably ok to set-up. I'm always very nervy about running kit on a bike that I don't know how to fix so I've put-off running electronic for a long time. I think TT bikes are a really great use for it though - the easy shifting when you're really dying in uncomfortable positions is a godsend!
I'll still run mechanical on my other bikes though as I don't really see the need to upgrade.
It's been a long slog trying to get back into shape for timetrialling. Those initial few races at the end of 2018 were torture. Having not raced a TT in nearly two years being abroad (and only racing crits in that time) it was a real shock to try to hold a constant power output for an hour again. Hopefully the winter Trainerroad sessions will put me back in some sort of form but I think it's going to take a while so I'm not going to put any real targets on this season.
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