Road Racing and Training 2016

PS if you like it, come and do some TTing next year!!!

calling @dave_mac

I'd still like to remove 3 seconds from my 25 PB and add about 7mi to my 12hr PB but not sure I will have enough time to focus on the TT bike while trying to train for TABR and TCR.
All the fast stuff tends to be in the middle of the year when I'll be away.

So you're also entering TCR again?* Looks like less climbing next year :0D

Something I'd love to do one year, but the drawn out selection process puts me off, which I guess it to put people off doing the event if they're not 150% up for it.

"Tell us about your long distance riding capabilities: Well, I did a 50 once in a crappy time" LOL

*have to be honest, I'm just a dot watcher, all the talk before the event I ignore!!

No, I HAVE entered again. :)
I've also entered TABR for the month before, you know, for an easy 6700k warmup.

There's not really a drawn out selection process. It take 30-60min to fill out the entry form and then you wait a bit to see if you get in. It's the same as entering an Open TT on a fast course - you might not get in. It does help if you have 'form' for riding a long way.

What is tabr? Sounds like a hook up site or an alcopop from 90's?

Trans America Bike Race : http://transambikerace.com/

It's like RAAM but unsupported, longer and about £20,000 cheaper.

Pic from today's Kent Cycling Association 50. The pink accents in my specs and helmet were added digitally by the photographer. Shame, as it looks quite good.

Come time trialling everybody. It's great fun!

Think I might. Would like to do a 10

Plenty of club 10s out west in the evenings during the week :0)

You need a skin suit that fits.

This is true, although I think it's more wrinkly in this pic as I originally shoved two gels up my legs before moving them to my sleeves when riding up to the start. Needed to pull the sleeves down a bit again :0)

Love your pink bits ;-)

How weird that they added them.

He always adds a filter or effect to pics. He was out in Italy taking pics of a team raising money for charity by riding Giro stages the day before the pros, so perhaps he's forgotten to take the pink out :0)

How did you get on?

With the photographer? I'm sure sam doesn't kiss and tell.

Ha ha.

Not too bad, Will. 2hr12 for 50 miles, couple of minutes off my course best. Not a full out TT effort, as I rode home after for Etape training. Considering that I couldn't hold the TT position for a 10 during my last TT back in April I am more than pleased.

Like a boss

Not that much of a boss, the winner did it nearly half an hour quicker than me! But then again he is a full-time amateur, if you know what I mean.

https://www.strava.com/activities/102038­0024#25052074339

28.8mph avg, it's bloody mental. As is the 354w avg.

Look pro go slow.

The only thing that matters...

Ha ha ha.

I can't find a list of midweek club 10s in the London West district anywhere. @dave_mac can you help out in any way?

A club 10 is the best way to get involved. Although an 'official' open event is much the same, you turn up, you sign on, you collect your number, you race, you hand back your number and sign out. The only difference being you don't have to enter club events in advance, you just rock up. And there will normally be no official HQ, just the boot of someone's car. And finally, there will be no tea and cake unlike an open event :)

The nearest to you Tom is the Houndslow and District club 10 on a thursday night. It starts by the garden centre on the road from Chertsey to Longcross.

It's a bit up and down and the road surface is terrible in places- I punctured doing a training ride a few months ago and the end of it .

I haven't raced it ( haven't actually raced yet!!) but probaly will do the Maidenhead club 10 on a Thursday as I know the organiser . It's a bit of a drive but at least the road is a bit smoother...

I think I've done that loop. It is the one that crosses the M3, then back over it again before going along Gracious Pond Road? If so, it's not a nice intro to TTing, very up and down. I've ridden it twice as a 27 mile TT, both on fixed, once I DNFed as my saddle clamp bolt came undo and the nose tried to stick itself up me bum.