WLCA 25 TT 2010-05-02 H25/4

The West London Cycling Association 25 mile TT today (2010-05-02) was reduced to a 10 mile TT due to the horrible weather. Even so, only about 10 people rode from an start list of 27.

5am start to the day, no coffee and riding out into the pissing rain was pretty rubbish and if it hadn’t been for Simon picking me up with a couple of miles to the HQ I’d probably have missed my start time too! I was on the Kinesis (new winter bike) since I didn’t want to ride the TT machine in the rubbish weather. Started and thought I was riding pretty well considering the conditions but the power meter didn’t agree. I guess yesterday took more out of my legs than I thought. Messed up the RAB when I was wiping my face and hit a pothole – whoops. 26:41 or two minutes slower than last year (road bike, in the dry) and about 6th place. Simon had a great day and did a 25:00 on a road bike with clip-ons. He came in 3rd overall. His training is paying off. Well done! Thanks loads for the lift home!

Big thanks to the Hillingdon CC, South Bucks RC and Amersham RCC volunteers who were standing out there in the cold and rain and didn’t even get a ride! Champions!

UPDATE: Andrew Cowburn has already got the results out. 11 riders finished. Fastest was Malcolm Woolsey with 23.47. I was 7th and looking at my Powertap data exactly 50W down on average power compared to October last year. 3kph slower. Bah!

Simon’s Great Missenden Wet One Race Report