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I take a note of the winning time, but the more interesting ones are the people who are there every week doing rides closer to what you're doing, and what you're hoping to do. You can have a look on the day at the timekeeper's sheet or result board; did you mate who usually takes a minute out of you do better or worse this time? When you have a few markers for comparison, it's much easier to see whether anything you've done is working, or whether the change in your time is just down to the variation in conditions. In June/July 2013, I rode the H10/2 on 15 evenings, 14 of them between 24:00 and 25:00, but with 12 different winners just looking at the winning time isn't that useful. Checking myself against known close competition from my own and other clubs told me much more about which rides were good and which were bad.