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For various reasons I’ve barely ridden since conquering the Pyrenees in July. Today I finally dusted off the cobwebs (literally!) on the S-Works and rode Westerley CC’s 10mi TT on the HCC180<\/a> course which starts in Great Missenden and is a simple out and back involving a couple of roundabouts. <\/p>\n It was supposed to be a 2-up event (2 riders working together to set one time) but I asked Roger if I could ride it solo since I’d never done a proper “10” before. A couple of years ago I’d done some of the Westerley’s evening 10s that were held over 11 laps of the Hillingdon circuit and actually 10.25mi. I think I was doing 26s for those. <\/p>\n Conditions weren’t the best today (it felt pretty breezy in both directions) but I’ve ridden that road when they’ve been a lot worse too. <\/p>\n Technically (and I’m certainly no TT expert here, just my musings) my ride wasn’t too hot. I was all over the shop with power output. Starting too hard is one thing but all through the 10mi I seemed to be up to 400W and then down to 300W and after one effort to pass another rider I dropped to 250W! <\/p>\n Towards the end Jumbo (edit: not Ron Purdy, see, that’s how long I’ve been away :)) was cheering me on (and probably stopped me riding up a slip lane when another cyclist turned that way in front of me) and I was lucky to sight a pair of riders up ahead which forced up my pace towards the finish. It hurt but it felt good at the same time. I stopped my watch thinking I’d gone low 25min in actual fact I’d done a long 24.. 24:55 to be precise. So that’s my 10mi PB and something to aim for when I have a built TT bike and do some actual training rather than competitive drinking next year. <\/p>\n We had breakfast afterwards at the Deep Mill Diner and I then had a frantic ride over to the Westerley hill climb I’d entered to set a completely unstartling time of 3-minutes-something. At 95kg I’m never going to be competitive but in this case I was just too trashed after the 10 to climb. It wasn’t even particularly steep or anything I just had totally dead legs and after the flattish start totally faded, ran out of air, hit the bail out gears and rolled to the top. <\/p>\n I guess I was just too fast for them to get any photos of me.. <\/p>\n WitzEnd > Westerley 2up 10 11th Oct 2009<\/a><\/p>\n HCC180 10mi TT 24:55 PB:<\/p>\n \tDuration: \t24:55<\/p>\n \tWork: \t518 kJ<\/p>\n \tTSS: \t45.2 (intensity factor 1.043)<\/p>\n \tNorm Power:\t349<\/p>\n \tVI: \t1.01<\/p>\n \tPw:HR: \tn\/a<\/p>\n \tPa:HR: \tn\/a<\/p>\n \tDistance: \t16.265 km<\/p>\n \t\tMin\tMax\tAvg<\/p>\n \tPower: \t0\t1022\t346 \twatts<\/p>\n \tCadence: \t36\t118\t89 \trpm<\/p>\n \tSpeed: \t5.5\t49.5\t39.1 \tkph<\/p>\n \tPace \t1:13\t10:55\t1:32 \tmin\/km<\/p>\n \tHub Torque: \t0\t59.3\t10.8 \tN-m<\/p>\n \tCrank Torque:\t0\t152.7\t37.2 \tN-m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For various reasons I’ve barely ridden since conquering the Pyrenees in July. Today I finally dusted off the cobwebs (literally!) on the S-Works and rode Westerley CC’s 10mi TT on the HCC180 course which starts in Great Missenden and is … Continue reading