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I chose a Van Van, and I loved it.
Second hand they are very cheap, totally reliable and so much fun.
I'm still on the fence as to the next bike though now.

Had a distinctly too cold TT on Sunday, couldn't get the legs going at all for a short 53.
Both power and HR was well down on normal.
Fastest time on the day was a 48:18, so it wasn't a treacle day all-round, but the early starters (myself included) all seemed to struggle from the post race chat.
I suspect the rank 'flu I had last week didn't help

I have to agree with @Soul, mine was spotless on pick-up.

Flavored Nut butters:

1. Butter Bike Co Raisin and Cinnamon
   
2. The Source Hazlenut/Chocolate
   
3. Pip and Nut Gingerbread
   
4. Outdoor Provisions Cacao/ Hazelnut
   
5. Yumello Salted Date PB
   
6. Outdoor Provisions Coffee/Almond/Cashew
   7.Outdoor Provisions Date/SeaSalt/Almond
   
7. Pip and Nut Cherry Bakewell
   
8. Butter Bike Co Chocolate
   
9. Manilife chocolate
   
   

Nut Butters:

1. Freda's Crunchy w/ Cornish Sea Salt
   
2. Butter Bike Co Rugged
   
3. Manilife OG crunchy
   
4. Pic's Crunchy
   
5. =Pip and Nut Ultimate
   
6. =Manilife Dark Roast
   
7. Katie's
   
8. "Smunchy" Proper Nutty
   
9. Pistachio butter (Bulk Powders)
   
10. Lidl/Aldi Own brand.
    
    

Next few on the to try pile are The Source, Subtle Couriers, and WF's.
Need to finish my Pic's 1kg first though and my consumption rate has gone down a bit recently, so that will take a bit.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16429277/
Update:
"Smunchy" always leaves me a little disappointed but its going to displace Meridian.
The random Peanut Butter was 'Katie's', and moves to 7th.
Freda's also comes in 2.5kg jugs for the proper addict. Manilife is consistently an enjoyable experience.

Chinook pilots taking the scenic route

Its pretty simple- go for a ride, post your strava to twitter and say, here's a piece of strava art in commemoration of the queen.
When anyone questions it, get overly defensive of your time and effort that went into it.

Sounds like some run training is in order (as with 95% of triathletes!)

Training is for sadists.

I did my first tri in literally a decade this year (London)- had meant to train, couldn't find time to get to the pool so hadn't swum properly since pre-covid, injured my knee in a XC 10k in May so had been not running very much either (fear of injury stopping cycling). But money had been paid and my next-door neighbour was doing it so they cajoled me into it.

The general standard was clearly a bit poor as-mass start I came 3rd overall and across all times through the day would have been 28th.
Everything was slow- the swim expectedly so, the run perhaps understandably so, but I was still a little upset (it was a little hectic), and the bike- well I had a mechanical and got caught behind an ambulance so that was very upsetting indeed.

S:22
T1:4
B:59
T2:2.5
R:41
Total: 2hr10.

Rather than starting a thread: Does anyone have any coach recommendations?
TT/ Road Racing focused. Aim of sub 50 and sub 19 for next season/ do well in Cat 2 racing.
(current PB is mid20 and a long 53- on a less than optimal set up- now addressed, and racing skills are improving).
Ideally one that includes Strength and Nutrition, as if left to my own devices I will just do Tempo sessions everyday and eat peanut butter #PBAS, this is not ideal for life or fitness.

Tell me about it, I randomly cry about Calvin all the time.
What a void. I'm sorry you had a similar experience, but seems like a very similar story as ours.

Couple of BC races were cancelled this weekend, which is fine as I have some form of non-covid lurgy.

Unrelated, and I've no idea how to retell this story without sounding like a right twat so:
We were looking at places to live not so long ago, and there was one where there was a massive print of this (queen, eyes closed) over a loo.
We thought it was ace, so copied it, and put a small print of the same in our tiny loo.

Something about her seeming distaste at you having a pee makes me chuckle.

Not sure what to do with it now, makes us look like royalists, which adds to the overall irony.

All dogs are a gamble, puppy or not. The benefit of a pup is you address the issues as they arise, with the aim of raising 'a good dog'.
There are a terrifying number of rescue puppers available, including on this site which we've spent far too long prevaricating on after a few shitty events this summer (they managed to IG target us so no idea as to reputation):
https://www.manytearsrescue.org/display_mtar_dog.php?id=35104

I don't regret choosing pupper phase, but I miss it. There's something magic about the illogicality of a 4 month old pup. I mean ours is still only 10months, but she's massive now.

Ingrid

It has some power tools, some polythene sheets and a freezer...
Not flooded yet, mind.
Disappointingly poor first entry compared to [my] historic posts. Will try harder.

Yeah man. Its a tempting set of circumstances to ask for a day of leave!

Nearly 100% our cellar is going to be flooded by end of tmw.
Insane rain in SW London right now.

4ft waves with a >15ss period predicted for Tuesday 13th down Porthtowan way, with Saunton getting smaller >15s as well.

Make your aim Porthtowan for Saturday or Tuesday as the forecast looks amazing?

No- another event has 112 entrants, this I think was 70->60?

says there were 112 entrants, which is the most I’ve ever heard of outside of a national, but only 66 riders turned up

Incorrect, but thats partially as I mixed up 2 events I was emailed about on the same day.
There were only 10 no shows on the day.

TT's have had much worse numbers.

@croft ?
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16657109/

RAC's fuel watch and charge watch suggest a drop is more likely in petrol/diesel costs:
https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/fuel-watch/
and have done a similar summary for charging:
https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/electric-cars/charging/electric-car-public-charging-costs-rac-charge-watch/
The rate of change with public chargers is concerning, but it will likely peak at some point, before inevitable regulation.

Possibly:
https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/energy-price-cap-adds-660-to-charging-an-electric-car-aIvCc0A54RFe

If anyone knows anyone looking for a SystemSix with 12spd UDi2 in a 54cm, in forum colors (sort of), do let me know.
Have swapped over to a Supersix and a cheap bike for racing, which makes more sense than turning up on the SystemSix for everything. (sort of).

This is one of the best ever threads on the forum. Fantastic.