We are already in the second half of May and you may now see a brief flurry of posts as I've some time off work as SHOULD have been in Lanzarote this week !
The time trialling season has started and mine begain with a windy Kings Lynn event back at the start of April. It was only six weeks ago !! Since then, I've had run outs on the trike and an exciting foray into tandem trike racing - as usual these are my race stories...
03.04.21 King's Lynn 25 - 59.59
Cold, cross wind but honest single carriageway outing. I chose this one as I had the 55 on and avoided DC racing like the plague, fearing spinning out. I also liked the idea of a course as close to a Lincolnshire one and mimicked starting the season with a 25 like years of old with the Middlemarkers. Power was good both ways, front wheel twitched a bit in places, and overall I was happy with my data and performance.
10.04.21 BDCA 25 - 56.46
Don't know what to make of this one. Everything looked good, the overall time was slow though and that probably went for everyone. A stroongish Northerly wind which was unhelpful in either direction and maybe could have done with that larger chainring. Maybe got more out of the brick run afterward.
24.04.21 Melton Olympic 10 - 24.02
First crack at the team comp record and yet again the wind was at play making the out to the turn very slow and then not enough on the way back to make it up. Positives, straight on the barrow and felt much better than last year.
01.05.21 Leo 30 - 1.14.17
This event is usually run on the E course but there's roadworks on there this year and this has necessitated the events moving to the F courses at Cambridge. Again on the barrow, and chasing an improvement to the team record, there were just too many roundabouts to make that happen. Again, smooth riding and happy with the way my barrow racing has been going this year.
15.05.21 VTTA Notts & East 25 - 56.27
With Dave an the long barrow. A big unknown, didn't know where to pitch the power and effort and we made a lot of this up as we went along. The front wheel was not fit for purpose and it rubbed all the way around. Also we were undergeared and had to spin out a couple of times. Did well overall, 56.27 is a very good start, now that the position is fixed, we have a 55 chainring to go on, and a tri spoke fromnt wheel to rid us of that rubbing !
