So i’m cross eyed now after hunting through the pics, as there were no helmet or front of bike numbers so the 1,000s of pics are all just in one massive album!
But i found a few of me on the bike (the last few pics i didn’t bother with after taking ages to find as i was sat up looking behind me to make a pass on a narrow road - typical).
Really hard to tell from that but without any sort of ST irony, are you sure your saddle is high enough? It looks like you are angled upwards (could be the front end I guess?)
100% agree. I was aware of that from the start, but I couldn’t get it any higher on that bike due to the geometry. When I tried it I was too far from the pedals.
I felt like I had good flexibility but I was sat ‘in’ the bike rather than on. But I just couldn’t wriggle it in that setup.
That’s why there bikes that are specifically designed for this stuff! 
Have to say for a road bike, that position looks really good. The obvious thing would be to see if you could get your elbows in more but appreciate that’s not always easy.
Yeah, I thought about that too (see I am learning). But I had to push out to the outside of the quite flat pads to get any form of stability. So something that should be easily fixed with new bars/bike in those Cup type pads.
Lost my soft pad on the bar as well about 45 mins before the end. Leaning on hard plastic and screws wasn’t very comfy!
ouch, that must’ve hurt. Mine have velcro on them, so if I lose the pad it’d be rash city!
I think the instability is probably a combo of not enough time in the bars and the trade off of road geometry.
No wonder your run hurt!!!
That position looks cray-cray
Looks relatively aero for a road bike but to get there you’re closing your hip angle so much and bending your back over. Not going to make running after easy. Not easy to fix it on that bike. Saddle forwards and a longer stem may help, unless you can drop the front a bit.
The real answer in N+1 get a cheap(ish) second hand TT bike, you don’t need to spend much as it doesn’t have to be lightweight, just the right geometry/comfy.
Google search term for a ‘disc wheel cover’.
(or amazon)
I am trying to buy a rear wheel cover to make it into a disc wheel, ideally through amazon so I can use prime delivery. The brilliant guy on ebay has gone on holiday.
Can anyone help with a better search term? I am wading through pages of stuff that I don’t want and not finding anything remotely like what I am after
@NickBerry has had some recent success with a wheel cover.
Apologies if it’s from the eBay seller
Looking at that I’d suggest a flip flop seat post.
Your front end looks great but your rear is compressing your hip which won’t do you any good at all. (and exactly what you’d expect if you put aero bars on a road bike )
He (and I) got it from the eBay chap, vitesse3500.
okay, thanks
This is the exact thing in my head. Doesn’t have to be big bucks, just the right shape. Then I can build upon it/upgrade over time. 
Agree with Poet and JGav … in isolation looks like a pretty aero position (probably better than mine!), but to get there with a road bike geometry, you’re closing off your hip angle so much. I can certainly see that is going to impact your run.
Outside of getting a TT bike, the only other possible consideration would be whether you can flip the seat post to try and change the location over the BB. There’s things like this but can’t really see them being worth the money. The issue with any of this is you’re still fudging it on a road bike, and how that impacts stability with more weight over the front end is always a risk
C’mon, £1400 mates rates is chump change for you. 
I’m 6ft 8 don’t you know. It would never fit.
Just to go back to your actual “aero-ness”, I do think it’s good. I don’t really have any great positions of me, but these are about the best from a couple of years ago:
I’d say we’re pretty similar in terms of upper body, but when you look at hip angles, you’re so shut off to get there (which is all to do with the bike). On that final photo it looks like your right upper leg is at something silly like 20 degrees to your torso, which when you compare to my images, I think I’m probably >45 degrees
Shorter crank arms is something you could also consider, but it all comes back to bodging a road bike. Getting a well fitting, cheap, TT frame, is going to allow a naturally better position with better handling, and even something old and cheap will deliver a better result
It’d fit better than your current set up.
