Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

She seems to be having a good time

I suspect she has a screw loose. It was absolutely bloody freezing. Write up here:

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She can't be going hard enough if she's got time to smile for the camera! ;-)

She can't be going hard enough if she's got time to smile for the camera! ;-)

This is an interesting debate - she deliberately kept her power at or just under 300 watts going up Hurst Hill.

I have seen a comparison of her file with that of one of the Kingston Wheelers chaps (who she beat by just under a minute) showing their relative time advantage / disadvantage over time. Now it is clear that the KW rider took back about 20 seconds on the first 2/3 of the ascent. However, what is equally clear is that she recouped this time plus some within the next km so that over the 3kms from the start of the climb she had made a net gain of 10 seconds over him.

Anyone who has watched Hutch race will know that he sets off as if ambling - this is the same dynamic at play: you maximise your overall pace by trying not to exceed your threshold power. Or in old-fashioned speak, you learn how to pace yourself.

And smiling = relaxed neck ---> shoulders ---> upper body = better pedalling form.

When I used to run 100/200/400m, we were encouraged to smile. It definitely worked, particularly coming off the final bend in the 400m; and it really freaked out the grimacing runners who were going backwards.

Inane, but true.

If you can work your gurn into a smile it does wonders for upsetting your competition in bunch races.

This probably won't work, but let me try to post an extract of the graph to demonstrate...

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If you can work your gurn into a smile it does wonders for upsetting your competition in bunch races.

Out comes the pic again.

Do you really want me to hunt through the Rolla archives for your sex face Sam?

Yes.

^get a room.

Anyone riding the Middlesex RC 10 on Saturday? A certain Ms Romero is on the start sheet!

^???

WTF has that got to do with Romero?

@ BMMF - I find that image really quite disconcerting! Please could you edit...

No problem:

Is that Max Crowe after last night's off?

Rebecca R is also riding in my race on Sunday,hope she's knackered.

Where's Mrs Willo racingon sunday? Dont think she's on my start sheet

^quite a coup for Lea Valley. Say hello to Sean (the organiser) and the rest of the LV 'old brigade' from me :)

Rebecca R is also riding in my race on Sunday,hope she's knackered.

Where's Mrs Willo racingon sunday? Dont think she's on my start sheet

She isn't. Her TT schedule doesn't see her racing again until April, although she does have some road racing and a couple of duathlons in the schedule. She steps up a bit in May, with a 10 and then 2x 50s. Thereafter we are into the nationals, where she is racing in the 10, 25, 50 and 100. She is even talking about doing the 12 hour (personally I hope this is just a passing idea, as I suspect racing in this will be a lot easier and less stressful than being support to Mrs S...)

How the fuck do people race over 12 and 24 hours, defies belief, i found doing a 50 hard, mentally not just physically

Yes , Sean and the rest of LV CC are very proud that Ms Romero will be racing on sunday.

Are you riding or marshalling or neither?