I reckon I'm fairly fit. I did the k100 yesterday in 11.53 and feel ok today. I fell run and can cover big distances when trained up. I'm obviously not fast though. I was aware yesterday that many people were riding away from me - one bloke in particular who consistently left me but kept having to stop and pump his tyre up allowing me to pass him again. I'd wanted to get under 12hrs so pushed on for the last 15 miles and did the last 20 at about 10mph so presumably had paced myself ok and had enough left to do that.
How on earth do people go fast enough to get under 10hrs though? I can see how you can cut out downtime by just not stopping or only stopping very briefly but is it just a case of pushing on to another level of fitness or is there some secret technique?
