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Well, since I was going for my first sub-hour time, I wasn’t too happy with 1:00.04<\/b> but thinking about it.. <\/p>\n
I’d been drinking a lovely combo of beer, cider and bourbon at Shaun’s 40th barbecue since 11am yesterday. <\/p>\n
I got to bed at 1.30am after scoffing a 12″ meatball (more meat?!) Subway to ease the inevitable hangover.<\/p>\n
I woke up to the alarm at 4.30am and had only instant coffee to drink, having run out of beans the day before. <\/p>\n
I rode (a bit shakey and holding back the vom) to the start 40k away and actually felt ok when I got there, though obviously didn’t look it, judging by some of the comments!<\/p>\n
I’m a bit annoyed that if I didn’t miss the last turn (I only just made it, braking hard, thinking I was going straight on) and almost stop at 2 RABs for cars I’d have made sub-hour. 4 seconds! <\/p>\n
Having said that, it was a new PB for the 25, taking 1m29s off my previous best time – set on the same course on the S-Works road bike 2 years ago. <\/p>\n
Simon took FOUR frickin’ minutes out of my time with a 56:11 so he must’ve been on fire today – I need to ask him for his training plan or EPO dealer \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n
I’m not sure what time Lance got, I was too busy consuming cake and coffee and hobbling back to a chair to notice – I’ve strained my glutes again – the ride home was horribly slow. <\/p>\n
Scherrit came over later and asked me about pacing and power. I was just loading the data into WKO so we had a chat about it: <\/p>\n
My power data indicates that I’m producing very similar power on the TT bike as I did on my road bike, even with far less training at the same time of year. This is very good. <\/p>\n
It means that my TT position isn’t robbing me of any power and my return to cycling after such a ‘non-event winter’ might be doing good things for me.<\/p>\n
My Average Power and Normalised Power values are also fairly close. I think this indicates reasonable pacing, ie. if there was a big difference it’d mean I was spiking the power output at times.<\/p>\n
It was the first 25 this year with the correct power meter fitted and it shows I am putting out over 310W for the hour. I wasn’t able to hit this on the turbo so assumed my power was well down. It’s not. I should be happy. 4 seconds. *sigh*<\/p>\n
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Well, since I was going for my first sub-hour time, I wasn’t too happy with 1:00.04 but thinking about it.. I’d been drinking a lovely combo of beer, cider and bourbon at Shaun’s 40th barbecue since 11am yesterday. I got … Continue reading