{"id":1142,"date":"2011-10-23T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2020-07-22T10:24:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T10:24:52","slug":"westerley-willesden-interclub-10mi-longdown-hill-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/westerley-willesden-interclub-10mi-longdown-hill-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"Westerley \/ Willesden Interclub 10mi & Longdown Hill Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>. 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!<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

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