Bike: Trek
Distance: 25 miles
Time: 59 minutes 11 seconds
Average speed: 25.344mph
Result: 35th out of 66
Under the hour for only the second time :D
Managed to hit 43mph going down the skislope :D
Did two 25 mile TTs this weekend in a total time of 2.00.12 :D (was aiming for under 2 hours, but close enough)
Also, a very strong Willesden performance, with our top 3 riders times = 2.59.40
Richard Jerome, with a new 57-tooth chainring and loads of quality training, did a 59:00. He's going about the same speed as me, therefore, and we're looking forward to our second attempt at a 2up 10 in a week or so. We should hopefully push each other to go faster as the year goes on, though for some reason Richard's into this road racing lark...
Hippy did a 1:01:29 in his first 25 mile TT. He was also hungover and was threatening to throw up kebabs and cider. So, his performance deserves plaudits.
I'd love to have a crack at this course in full fitness, i.e. not having raced the day before - reckon I could've done a 58 or even 57 today. It seems a bit risky, though: a few riders were knocked off or came off, and the initial descent is also a big test of courage.
Today deserves, and will get, a full report. For now:
* was up at 5.30 this morning
* cycled 30-odd miles out to Marlow with hippy to get to the HQ
* felt bloody awful
* but rode much better than yesterday
* then had to get back to Suffolk, in the face of the dreaded Bank Holiday Timetable
Have ridden 142 miles this weekend, and 411 miles since I got back from holiday 11 days ago. And have to be up very early tomorrow to head back to London where I am dogsitting a whippet.
Sunday, 4 May 2008
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Can't believe you were faster than me on the starting descent!
I'm not holding anything back next time.
Oh crap, does that mean there'll be a next time? ;)
Were you actually pedalling on the descent? :p
Richard told me he would take 'literally hours' out of me on the descent, so I did some fast downhills in Suffolk (!!!) the week before, to get up to speed.
Meanwhile, howsabout you, me, Louis and John all head off to Hillingdon next Wednesday evening for a circuit 10 TT? Only this will decide who will be 'champion of the world'. Richard can't enter, because he's going too well.
'soft pedaling' I believe it's called. I have gravity assistance packs fitted to my body :)
Could be up for that, although I don't like that circuit at all.. mainly because you two are always faster than me :)
I may not do it, I am sensibly not going to 'overdo' it in the lead up to the 100 TT on the 25th, and I'm riding that 2up with Richard the day before...
... there is a long ride in the pipeline for 18th May, but details are sketchy. I expect you've already got something insane planned?
Yeah, 18th of May is the ArcherGP sportive.
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