1.045 this morning. Coming back into the village ruined it, as did a few traffic lights 
Chill Winstaaan; it’s hard to have a smooth ride if you’re not out in the sticks or on a trainer! You know on race day it’ll go out of the window when the red mist sets in anyway 
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Nah. None of that this time.
I’ve paid for the power meter.
So I may as well use it.
However, it does make rides incredibly boring.
But the rides I’m now doing are very specific to the 113 course and at race IF, so come Race day, I shouldn’t need to look at it, as I’ll just know what it feels like.
Another open water swim this evening, just a doggy paddle round, an easy 1.9km - 2.3km.
Getting close now…
Does your PM support VI, or do you have to work it out? I never get it in my Garmin stats. Just wondering if you have that on your screen, or you just use IF/NP on the day. I will generally use IF & HR as a cap in an Ironman.
Work it out. Just try to keep the AP and NP as close as possible, within the bounds of 0.80 - 0.78 IF and <156bpm.
Elevate Extension does VI.
But it’s (sort of) the absolute of NP/AP.
Here’s how I’ve got it set up (it scrolls on medium, to a speed screen, 10km lap average screen and HR/cadence data)
I’ve just created a VI data field using the AppBuilder Connect IQ app. Just as an experiment really, not sure how much I will use it.
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Get you!!! Mr Fancy 
Interesting. Didn’t know about that app. It looks like that could have a number of potential options. VI clearly being an easy one.
I was looking for an excuse to try it, there are plenty of examples of people creating functions far more complex than anything I have attempted. But it seems to work as advertised.
I’ve mapped this as the full 88km, for BBS;
From 113 Facebook;
https://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/2511529435
From my painstaking clicking another loop for BBS;
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/30032005
Got me at 2:21:06 now 
If that’s the new route then it’s certainly flatter, and ‘badger road’ was probably the worst surface so another boost. There will be no breaking aero and no free wheeling on the whole course, so make sure you are comfortable.
You’ll need to break aero at the RAF base for that dead turn and possibly at the end of lap 1 (mainly for safety reasons?)
Also, if you’re not au fait with navigating roundabouts on the bars, you be screwed.
I look forward to hearing how the aero u turns go
I’m pretty sure everyone doing it has ridden roundabouts. As far as being screwed if you can’t do it in aero…how so? It’s not a 10/25.
I said: “Also, if you’re not au fait with navigating roundabouts on the bars, you be screwed.”
Which was in reply to not breaking aero for the whole course.
We’ll be fine chap 
I won’t be navigating those RABs at the northerly
Point on the bars.
Some of those turns aren’t roundabouts, I assume they will be cones in the road or something very similar. The only roundabouts are over the A419 afaik.
From zooming right right in, they all appear to be RABs?
Apart from the one at the lake, and the one near the RAF base (excluding standard left/right hand turns)
The 2 new out and backs go up to roundabouts. The far end is a dead turn, although they could have taken a little loop through Dunfield to even prevent that. My main point is there is no let up, no free wheeling, no break to pedalling in aero.
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That’s the Swindon West Travelodge booked for just me. £39 ain’t bad for a single night.
My wife was more than happy to not be woke up at 4am
Aiming to drive the bike course on Saturday evening.
Getting pretty excited for this one now!
Especially for that final session in 20+ degrees on Sunday
Must be getting close, there are signs up on the A419 double roundabout telling me to expect delays. Lake 32 was also very busy on Tuesday with 113 talk in the air (maybe also some additional swimmers due to half term). Lake temp was reported as 19 so should be toasty if we have a bit of warm weather! Very shallow in top left corner, but I think you are routed around that bit.