Last night I looked at the TT bike and thought “nah, it’ll be slower on the hill climb” so chose to prep the S-Works road bike. I looked at the 11T DA cassette and thought “nah, I’ll not need go fast enough for that” and kept the 12T on. Turns out I could’ve done with both. Damn. My normalised power was 20W up on the 10mi TT I did on 18/09. The tailwind on the way out meant that at my preferred cadence I ran out of gears on the Wendover bypass. I averaged ~47kph/30mph to the turn-around. The average after the turn was 36kph – the wind made a big difference!

Perhaps being on the road bike meant I paid less attention to the power meter and just punished myself? Whatever, it was fast and almost a new PB. I was pretty annoyed afterwards that I didn’t bother with the holder at the start and was mucking around pushing 2-up clubmates back together mid-race (shhh!). So, once again, note to myself: If you’re going to bother entering a race then race properly!

Followed up the 10 with a hill climb up Longdown and got a second place overall. I was a long way off first place (the winner has won it 4 times though I was only a second slower than him last year when I didn’t ride the 10 first).