Time Trial PB's

[iggibizzle]

Me neither. Do you just turn up at these things?

 

[Hacienda71]

TT's are normally entry on the line. Rock up to the car park where you sign on pay a few quid and off you go at the start time they give you. To make it simple a lot of TT's will start on the hour and your number will correspond to your start time past the hour, so if you get number 14 you will probably be off 14 minutes past. The first few places may be reserved for the guys riding from the organising club. It may be worth emailing the club just to be on the safe side. Most have websites confirming rules dates sign on times etc.

 

[derrick]

There you go get signed up.

http://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/

 

[Justinslow]

TT's are normally entry on the line. Rock up to the car park where you sign on pay a few quid and off you go at the start time they give you. To make it simple a lot of TT's will start on the hour and your number will correspond to your start time past the hour, so if you get number 14 you will probably be off 14 minutes past. The first few places may be reserved for the guys riding from the organising club. It may be worth emailing the club just to be on the safe side. Most have websites confirming rules dates sign on times etc.

To enter our clubs TT's you have to be a member of a bike club, not necessarily our club. For the open ones (there's a couple each year) I think you have to sign on a few weeks before the event......

 

[iggibizzle]

I am a member of a bike club. And British cycling. It's just the club I'm in doesn't deal with them. Thanks for the info Derrick. Il see what's about locally

 

[Cuchilo]

You can also enter and pay via rider HQ . Its good to get an account with them to make sure you get a place if its an event you really want to do .
http://www.riderhq.com/

 

[Justinslow]

Tonight's 10, windy, little bit of drizzle going out, took it steady hoping to get blown back as coming home theres a hill to negotiate. Felt slow, but tried hard to keep the effort up. Things did indeed get better coming home and I managed to improve my time with a 24.29 coming in 5th out of 22 riders, winning time was 22.41.
I improved by 39 seconds over my last TT on this course, I had posted a 24.50 using my mates moda TT bike in a practice run, so was well pleased to beat that time with my regular steed - the trusty ventura!
The two riders in front of me in the clubs championship failed to improve so I've also managed to leapfrog them into first place with one round remaining!
https://www.strava.com/activities/373523139

 

[iggibizzle]

That's me who just followed you on strava. Great speed

 

[Justinslow]

That's me who just followed you on strava. Great speed

Cheers, The strava feed includes my warm up as it was just off the I phone that I started in the car park and the faffing about waiting to start! The segment that was the actual TT was the "lav b10/39 TT".

 

[iggibizzle]

Yep been looking through. Great stuff. As you can see from mine I do a lot of miles. But as I'm getting faster and faster i want to compete in some form. And this seems the best way. Had my 1st rest day today for about 7 weeks. Will be interesting to see I'm any quicker after a small rest. Might try the loop nearer to me tomorrow. But as usual the weather looks nasty.

 

[HLaB]

I don't use anything yet, just my I phone to record the ride, was looking at garmins, but not ready to stump up the £150ish for a 500 and all the bits just yet! So I'm riding blind, not even a speedo.

I like the look of that new Garmin 25, same as the 500 but in a smaller and slightly cheaper package; the slight drawback is the battery being smaller only lasts 8hours.

 

[moo]

I like the look of that new Garmin 25, same as the 500 but in a smaller and slightly cheaper package; the slight drawback is the battery being smaller only lasts 8hours.

As a hooked TTist you'll probably invest in a power meter at some point (prices are coming down). Unfortunately, the Garmin 25 has no support for them.

 

[Cuchilo]

Got a PB of 1:10:25 for a 25 this morning . There was a nasty headwind that seemed to go in both directions How does it do that !

 

[Joshua Plumtree]

Got a PB of 1:10:25 for a 25 this morning . There was a nasty headwind that seemed to go in both directions How does it do that !

It's just a malicious b*stard out to get you.

 

[Cuchilo]

It's just a malicious b*stard out to get you.

It was ! I started talking to it on the way back and told it it was supposed to be my farking tail wind , but it didn't listen .