Not a bad start then, especially on the road bike! Probably more used to that position?
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Tri Club gave up CTT affiliation which is annoying as i can’t enter Opens at the moment with joining a cycling club.
Had a few in the diary I was going to enter as well.
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My bike club is only about a tenner a year and Triathlon England covers insurance for that, one of the main reasons I entered was for CTT and the evening 10’s.
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Friend said Kings Lynn was cancelled due to winds.
My season kicks off April 28th, stripping the year down to basics this year to support Kona prep. Starting late, 2 25s, 2 50s and a 100, plus a sprinkling of evening club 10s.
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The club near me is £30 per year plus they’re a bit of a pain
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Reasonably pleased with the performance today even if the time doesn’t look great. AP was 285W which felt about right although the HR seemed a bit lower than I expected, but could have been the cooler weather or just general fatigue.
Have had a pretty tough 5 days of training with an all out blast around Glasgow one night for 6 minutes, then the crit on Friday and a hard parkrun yesterday so I knew I was pretty tired.
The wind possibly shifted a bit during the race and was definitely as much across as a headwind, a couple of times we were getting blown sideways or leaning into the wind. As it was essentially 10K each way my splits were only about 2-3 minutes different outbound\return.
Finished in 68:45, that was on the road bike and very few broke an hour, there were quite a few people on TT bikes sat up on the bars as well.
Decent workout though, the winter Zwifting has kept the cycling at a reasonable point, probably the race series I did with BL13 in Feb\March.
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A tough day out today but a solid result
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Nice work @jeffb solid start to the season and good power numbers
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20 mile TT tonight, bloody freezing but a good ride managed a win by 3:45 and rode close to FTP for the entire ride. Looking positive for the TT season
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Entered a couple of Spoco’s for the next couple of weeks, distances are 40 & 47 miles but with the terrain and vert will take a bit longer. I’ve done one before.
First one is in the middle of the Pennines, absolutely the arse end of nowhere next Sunday 
second is in Northumberland, starting near Newcastle.
Hopefully can get some decent rides out of them.
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Fancy a road bike SPOCO at some point. There’s a 27 miler in Leics that I might do next year.
Saturday, I had an outing on the Cambourne course for the Cambridge 15. At 7th attempt this year , I managed to finally behave and limit my early enthusiasm. 33:19 and a new 15 mile PB (the old one was from 2017 and was on the 15 mile version of the V718).
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These both have a road bike category, that’s what I put down for next week but might put the tri bars on for the one in Northumberland, vaguely recall some bits where I can get down.
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Not sure you can use tri bars in the road bike category. Also helmet can’t be pointy or cover the ears. The CTT have some funny rules. Our club TTs were run under TLI so anything went
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Sorry, that was badly worded. First race this weekend I’ve entered as a road bike and won’t put them on and just use my aero road helmet. Second race I have entered as TT if I decide to use them, but they usually let you change on the day if I don’t bother with them.
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Got the second of the 2 TT’s tomorrow and determined I’m not going to wimp this one!
It’s about 76K with 1K climbing going on when I did it in 2019, that time was a road bike and finished in 2:35. Due to my total incompetence I still haven’t got the TT bars on the TT bike sorted so it’ll be road bike again. Having said that, going on the update the roads aren’t great with a couple of dodgy patches so I’m less worried.
Probably just going to be a case of getting round as I’m feeling a bit tired today.
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Club was late paying for last year’s CTT registration and wanted £100 extra for the lateness.
Club decided that not enough used it or care so let it lapse. It was me who used it FFS 
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It’s pretty much the main reason I renew with the cycling club, about £12 PA and also helps a local club. I sometimes make it to the club 10. Despite having a reasonable adult membership very few actually race, I think.
I could join Verulam but it’s £30 per year and I dont think I’d be able to go to any activities
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You could join the same club as @jeffb 
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I made it to the TT this morning, really wasn’t feeling up to it when I got there, legs felt very heavy from the trail run.
Road surfaces really were a bit of everything, smooth tarmac, rutted roads and fresh stone chip!
There’s also ~1100M climbing with a couple of long efforts and lots of rollers in the 76K.
Anyway, went better than expected and finished in 2:31 which was about 4 minutes faster than 2019 despite worse roads. AP was 250W and NP was nearer to 270, I was battered at the end so sacked off a brick run. About 20W higher this time.
Some really fast rides though but also a bit reckless I think, I saw someone come flying down the hill making me look like I was stopped and was about .5 metre from the verge on the opposite side of the road to take the racing line into a slightly blind corner, would have almost certainly been an instant DQ. I get that people are racing but on open roads like that they are taking a big risk.
Ended up being a good training session, but can’t work out if I’m in better shape than I think or just didn’t try very much last time 
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