Sun 3rd September was the British time trial championships. It was won by Alex Dowsett Team Sky in 58.26(30mph) I finished 10th in 1.04.4? (27.2mph) – 6 minutes behind. The women’s race was won by  Wendy Houvenaghel (Bike Chain Ricci) 45-38. It was raining quite hard during the masters event. My warm up consisted mainly [...]

Saturday was my second 25 mile TT of the year, the Charlotteville CC 25 on the H25/8 in Bentley. For a change weather conditions were very good, low wind, warm. Traffic was moderate. Not too busy but a few passing cars. Given recent times, I had a hope to set a new PB. At the [...]

Cadel Evans in Time trial, photo by By nattsang (CC 2.0) Last Saturday there were two quite different time trials. One was 42km under the glare of the international media, 50% of the Australian and Luxembourgean public glued to their tvs, spectators lining the entire course, and millions of Euros involved in the outcome of [...]

A position before testing. Last week I visited the Mercedes GP wind tunnel testing site in Brackley, Northampton. The wind tunnel is hired by drag2zero who offer a service to test people in time trial position for wind drag. It involves putting the bike on a turbo and riding at a speed of around 30mph [...]

Despite a wet weekend, I managed to do two races. Saturday was a 10 mile time trial organised by North Hampshire on the H10/8. I did 20.13, which was first place. It was also my quickest time on that course by about 40 seconds. I only just decided to drive to race because it was [...]

This weekend was a change of scene. Up in sunny Yorkshire, I was also down to ride two ‘sporting courses’. A sporting course is generally defined as one which has a few hills and not on a flat dual carriageway with loads of cars going past. Clifton CC 13 Mile TT. I finished 1st out [...]