I have finally been wooed by the dark side (or having a mid life crisis) and must admit my interest in sedate riding with the CTC has been waning a bit. I have now joined a local club with a view to getting in a full time trial season commencing end april/early may.
I have actually been wanting to do this for a while but work commitments have prevented me. However now having recd a heads up from my boss that I can leave earlier on a Wednesday it should be full steam ahead.
My goals are as follows:
Ride as many Weds eve TT's as I can (there will be instances where work will take priority unfortunately)
First couple try not to rag it and blow and learn the course and the pacing and not worry too much about the time (yeh right)
Early season - break evens
Break 28's by the close of the season.
I have a road bike but may have to invest in clip on areo bars and who knows if the bug bites could be purchasing a TT bike
I will have to drive to start so may only get a warm up of 20 mins or so which will not be much. Was thinking of signing on quickly, and then getting out spinning easy for 15 minutes then increasing intervals towards the end followed by a recovery spin slow up to the start.
In terms of training in addition to the club runs I was just going to go to what I have identified a good local training loop mark out a ten course and try and interval up to a pace above the reqd averages for my goal times. Slowly increasing each interval duration over the course of the weeks.
I hope I have got across my sense of excitement and if any TT pro's out there have any tips they would be very gratefully received.
Cheers
I have actually been wanting to do this for a while but work commitments have prevented me. However now having recd a heads up from my boss that I can leave earlier on a Wednesday it should be full steam ahead.
My goals are as follows:
Ride as many Weds eve TT's as I can (there will be instances where work will take priority unfortunately)
First couple try not to rag it and blow and learn the course and the pacing and not worry too much about the time (yeh right)
Early season - break evens
Break 28's by the close of the season.
I have a road bike but may have to invest in clip on areo bars and who knows if the bug bites could be purchasing a TT bike
I will have to drive to start so may only get a warm up of 20 mins or so which will not be much. Was thinking of signing on quickly, and then getting out spinning easy for 15 minutes then increasing intervals towards the end followed by a recovery spin slow up to the start.
In terms of training in addition to the club runs I was just going to go to what I have identified a good local training loop mark out a ten course and try and interval up to a pace above the reqd averages for my goal times. Slowly increasing each interval duration over the course of the weeks.
I hope I have got across my sense of excitement and if any TT pro's out there have any tips they would be very gratefully received.
Cheers