And I’m back! Midweek MTB is finished so I’ll have a bash at Hillimgdon again, starting on the 13th with my new 50’s. I’m looking forward to it in an odd way.

Got another road bike club 10 tonight. My training schedule has been completely screwed-up this week so I’m tempted to go 95% and then do it again after as a 2×20. Not sure I have the self control not to go for it.

Tonight went surprisingly well. Fastest ride of the year by a long way, and an all time pb on that course by 4 seconds. So far this year I hadn’t got close to last year’s times but the miles I’ve put in on the bike over the last four weeks seem to have really helped 🙂

Nice one. Don’t know about you, but conditions for our TT were pretty much perfect this evening. Wind was a bit blustery when I rode out, but it died down a fair bit before the start.

True dat. I went full gas. Did 343W / 4.54W/Kg for a 20:36 and 1st place..

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Quite chuffed as all the fast guys showed tonight. Obviously being on a road bike and rolling course was a bit of a leveller. I don’t own a TT bike, so they crucify me on fast DC course times. I didn’t even wear my skinsuit this week!

Just for kicks, I did do it again afterwards for my 2×20 workout. Did a 22:06.

Picture from tonight. Taken on a bit of a rise near the end so I wasn’t in full aero bar-chewing mode.

It was a bit windier than I’d have liked but it was from a vaguely helpful direction so not too bad. The last stretch was a minute slower than I’ve done it in the past but the start was blisteringly fast for that course.

Nice one. 😀

All good data for getting your season back on track.

Certainly blowing a gale round here today.

What an excellent night. Despite being chopped on a corner, a blustery night, and riding -10% of FTP (so I know theres more to go) I’ve just removed 1:07 to post a PB time of 26:14 at Hillingdon (road bike with clip ons).

Hurty legs on laps 9 &10 and double vision smashing the final 1/2 lap – brilliant! Has to sit down for a couple of mins once over the line.

Just the club event again last Thursday. I lost last weekend’s training to family stuff, so I’d trained all through the week up until then. Was pretty cooked come Thursday. Same HR, 2 seconds slower. 15W down on power. Bit of a shame to miss out on what was obviously more favourable wind conditions, but hey. On the Strava compare I was actually 7 seconds up at 7 miles, then there’s a 500m @ 6% drag and I just had nothing extra to up it. The winner from the first week smashed 30 seconds off me, so I think any aspirations of winning the scratch competition went up in smoke.

Club 10 mile championships on V212 last night. I was fastest lady by a little over 2 minutes and took about a minute off my course best.

25.56 – it’s very much not a fast course (fastest time by a club member was a 22, not sure if any guests went faster. But I don’t think anyone has ever broken 20 on it).

Have you got a picture of you riding it?

EDIT: Preferably one of you racing on it. But If you can get a picture on the turbo, make sure it’s one of you after you’ve been doing an interval for 10 minutes.

Did a 100TT at the weekend on a rolling course. Managed 4hrs28m, marginal pb. I was useless for the remainder of the day after that. Best 10m TT time is 21.59 a few weeks ago, can’t see me going quicker than that any time soon.

Same, same, but different – Club series again last night. Did a 20:36 – again. Got second – again. Got stuck at a RAB with stationary traffic. Strava compare against my previous ride suddenly jumps from equal to 7 seconds behind. I clawed it back, so that bodes well for future events. Winner did a CR 19:57. He’s got 15Kg on me though. I’d need to be up at 5.3W/Kg to match his power.

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Bertie, can you recommend me a steak house?

You have a PM, right? Just grab your CP30 (graph, not actual) and go with that.

I mean, look at where the best-fit line is at 30 minutes. But as you say, if you have a fairly classic CP curve, the difference between CP30 and CP60 will be fairly small. A few percent.

Yeah. I think that is common with people who concentrate on TTs. I’m sure my curve would be flatter if I would HTFU and suffer more on the longer efforts.