{"id":1228,"date":"2015-06-14T22:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T22:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2015-06-24T12:52:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:52:30","slug":"2015-06-14-newbury-rc-12hr-tt-h12hr8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/2015-06-14-newbury-rc-12hr-tt-h12hr8\/","title":{"rendered":"2015-06-14 Newbury RC 12hr TT \u2013 H12hr\/8"},"content":{"rendered":"

278.60 miles<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was supposed to be an A event for me – I wanted to have a crack at breaking the 300 mile mark for 12 hours. At the end, I was almost 20 miles down on last year’s distance, having achieved none of my goals. Fail.<\/p>\n

The race consisted of 5 hours on the ball, sitting pretty, so to speak, nailing my selected power and then LEGSGOBANG! a rapid decline such that I (barely) finished the event having averaged the power I’d typically ride during a 24hr. Meh. Big ol’ cup o’ meh.<\/p>\n

All I can pin it down to is having a dose of the squits the day before and the morning of the race. Theory being, if your guts is dodgy, you’re body isn’t properly taking on nutrients and I basically just ran out of energy, even though I was eating my Torq goodies just fine.<\/p>\n

The next 7 hours were then a feeble procession with a few attempts to pack (quit) but my team wouldn’t let me! I’m not one to bail on a race without there being a fatal mechanical or a hospital visit involved so the going must’ve been grim! Thanks to them I did get a 12hr training ride done and I guess it was still the second fastest 12hr I’ve ridden but when you know you can do so much better it sucks to fall apart so bad on race day.<\/p>\n

Congrats to Mark Holton riding the second fastest 12hr ever, a 316.74mi, just behind Andy Wilkinson’s Comp Record 317 miles and Jill Wilkinson who rode the second fastest women’s 12hr ever with a 269.85mi ride. Also, nice work to Hoppo who bashed out a career high 270.89 miles.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately due to the general feebleness of modern humans there aren’t many 12hrs run these days and the remaining events clash with other races\/rides I’m doing so it looks like I’ll have to wait another year to crack the 300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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