I know! With hindsight, my race was a shower of s**t!! 😆

……But I got a pay rise at the meeting afterwards so it was worth not focussing too much on the race 😆

I have a strange feeling my Tempo session on Wednesday may become Z2 and my Z2 on Thursday become Z1 and Fridays S drills may become race openers this week 😀

Somebody has upped the ante 😉

That pic must have been early on?

We weren’t going at pace so I was also up like a sail 😆

Yes, doing about 19mph I think 😆

I’ve charged up my MTB light this week 😀

Hoping mine’s still charged from last week.

I’ve set aside some money for a power meter, has to be Ultegra though 😆

Forecast says rain between 4 & 5pm boo – commuter it is 🙂

What time did you boys stay till? Or indeed are staying till this week?

I can be there from about 4:15 ish and can quite happily stay until 7.

I have no pressing need to get back this week but certainly until dark….

Ah right. Well, I’m afraid that’s not going to fly for me then boys. So I’ll see you Sat early doors and do some swift action tomorrow instead.

Weeksy- What time did you think we’d leave? We wouldn’t have been riding until 15:30 at the earliest 😆

And if we left there at 17:00 we’d be sat in a queue for so long getting home, we’d have just as well left at 18:30 anyway…..

(I know this because that’s what I did last week 😉 )

I was assuming 5 mate, obviously incorrectly. It’s pancake day tomorrow and my lad is really looking forward to it. Silly as it sounds, his fun is more important than mine and missing pancake day wouldn’t sit well with me.

I’m not as convinced it will affect my result.

As I say, I left at 5 last week and it took 1h45 to get home. I’m hoping it will be half that if I leave a little later.

I don’t think it will affect your result but it will give you some muscle memory of riding inches apart at speed through a corner- which can only help.

We’re having our pancakes on Wednesday 🙂 (Freddie can’t read a calendar yet 😆 )

I tried that when my lad was 2 and we went to morzine, I wanted to come back 2 days after his birthday. Mrs Weeksy wasn’t having it that we don’t tell him and have his birthday a few days late.

Lol! A birthday and pancake day are a little different 😆

Kudos for trying though 😀

Guys I’ve got 45mm depth wheels.

Will these fit!?

You’ll need a valve extender

Yes, with valve extender. The Vitoria ones are good, they have a removable core. Don’t get the Michelin ones, they don’t.

And you’d recommend them over butyl for a race bike?

Are your wheels carbon? There is usually a warning on the tube box (and a warning sticker on the rims) recommending not to use latex with carbon rims.

Yeah Hope Carbon 45s

I don’t think I’ll overheat latex tubes in crits!?

Basket is ready to go:
KMC X11 EL Gold Chain
2x Vittoria Latex tubes

I’ll hit the buy button if I get my 2 points. 😆

@ Weeksy, worth a watch for Sat:

[video]https://youtu.be/fqLdeLchqYA[/video]

yeah you’ll probably be alright with them for crits

I don’t think I’ll overheat latex tubes in crits!?

🙂

I ran latex tubes on carbon rims all last year on a couple of bikes and had they were fine. I might think twice about an alpine descent but otherwise I’d not worry.

That’s reassuring @mrblobby – and once in they’re less p*n<t^re prone?

I think so. Have had good experience of running then all winter with GP4000’s too.

Another fun training session at Hillingdon this evening. Thankfully, the clouds parted, the rain stopped and the sun came out to make a lovely evening!

I got absolutely trounced in 2x 1km races by both Nath and Jesper. I redeemed myself though in the 2x 200m sprint races with 1470w and 1459w maximums respectively.

I did a few good max cadence drills with over 140rpm up the hill a few times too. That’s positively whirring for me 🙂

That’s a big number indeed!

Left me for dead 😆

It’s a pretty irrelevant number when the comms have pulled you off and you’re stood watching the rest of the bunch sprinting it out 😆

It’s a pretty irrelevant number

Numbers are nice but the important one is how fast you were over those 200m 🙂

Quite! I certainly wouldn’t be kicking out 1400w after doing 8w/kg for 1 min!!!

Yay! Strava is back online 🙂

Carrying on the pointless numbers thing, my second sprint was over 1000w average for 15 seconds 😀

Those are very impressive sprint numbers.

It’s a pretty irrelevant number when the comms have pulled you off and you’re stood watching the rest of the bunch sprinting it out

Continue the progress and in a few weeks or months time it will be a different story. Getting your fitness up to a level where you stick in with the bunch is an easier goal (relatively speaking) than it is for most riders to put out 1400+ watts. Many won’t get close to that no matter how much focus they put into improving their sprint.

Indeed, i could install a 500W motor and still never trouble 1400.

Strava estimates my max power was 545w 😆

My 1k anti clockwise was 1:28, 6 seconds slower on the commuter, but only at 337w 🙂

You boys are scaring me now !

Numbers are nice but the important one is how fast you were over those 200m

@MrBlobby- We rolled to the line at 15mph and I maxed out at 29mph into a quartering 10mph headwind. I was on the drops and trying to be as aero as possible 😆