Biggest thing that has happened this month, is that I've agreed to enter and train for Ironman Barcelona in October of next year. This means dusting off the old Triathlon, Duathlon and of course Ironman sections of this blog ! I'll be testing still cos testers always be testin, however my coaching will stop at the end of March and then I'll be going solo - scary !
In other news, I did some testing throughout July, and this is how it turned out..
7th July - Lincoln Wheelers Charity 10 - 22.26
There is a reason why I have avoided our fastest 10 mile local course for the past three years and that is because I don't think I have ever gotten it just right and I was wayward on this event too. I really wanted a 21 minute time on a Lincolnshire course but it wasn't to be ! Started too strong even with trying to keep a lid on the power, but wilted badly on the return probably because of
8th July - Nottingham Clarion 3up TTT 57.41
This was fun. The day after the Charity 10 and I found my legs - I was in a Lincoln Wheelers team with me old mukkas Sean Hunt & Richard Sheldrake, and the three of us worked like a well oiled unit on a two lap single carriageway course. We benefited from a morning start, and from the off the pace was frantic with regular and constant switchovers - having beforehand worried about being strong enough for a three up, I held my own and was able to give it full beans. We won a tenner each as fastest old boys - nice mornings riding.
14th July - BDCA Trike Assc 50 - 2.06.11
This was an altered course to the usual 50 course and was a three lap affair. This nicely describes my outing for the day - I rode the first lap at race pace and in the heat and with my Garmin cutting out causing my strategy of tracing average power out of the window. By the end of the first lap my head had gone and I enjoyed a massive flounce by getting off and quitting. After a couple of minutes, I got back on and decided not to waste the miles and rode the last two laps at training pace. Overall, 2.06 was a course improvement, but again, far too hot for racing.
22nd July - Shaftesbury 50 1.51.14
Stayed over at Cherry Hinton in the pop up palace and had a decent nights sleep in preparation for the Shaftesbury 50 and a 7.27 start time on the E2. It was a warm morning but nothing like the afternoon temperatures that we've been seeing, so a nice change. Wind was low but unhelpful as a cross wind. As a result the course was a bit dead for the first half, only livening up for the second half. I paced power very well, negative splitting at c.270W/272W, giving an overall return of 271W. A time of 1.51.14 meant a three second personal best as well.
28th July - VTTA National 25 - 1.03.19
Delayed an hour for traffic, no cancellation for the severe wind, and so , so many DNS's on the start sheet. I think we had gusts of between 41-45mph - the only concern was cross wind as I went across the A46, but I practiced a couple and as long as you paid attention it was fine. My time was 1.03.19 and obviously much slower than my ride on the same course in April. I was horribly over geared on the tough headwind out section really gurning the trike up relatively shallow climbs and then the test of strength of Bingham Hill - how I got up that I don't know !! I lost 5 watts at the turn from the freewheeling, and then on the way back I hit a PB on any machine averaging 31 mph and undergeared - I chased the power where I could but there were part that I'd spin out on. Winter project for the trike will be installing a double - a 60/46 would have been ideal today ! Overall, on such a crappy day, that was the best I could produce.
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