TT Smackdown 2025

Mid-30s with 2 young kids was my athletic peak.

Perhaps you guys should be questioning your time management?

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Tsk, it’s wasted on the young.

:fishing_pole_and_fish:

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I’m questioning my life choices. :joy:

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How do you know there’s not better to come? :grinning:

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Same here. 37 is when all my PBs were set and my kids were young

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Is that me drafting off someone on the bike?

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It would have to be quite niche & preferably involve gin or cider.

I don’t know why I’ve declined :joy:.

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I could do with the race being in about 3 weeks looking at this chart! :joy: :joy:

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+12 in the last 7 days :muscle:

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Ha ha ha :joy::see_no_evil:

Good going that.
Nice week of taper and you’ll be firing on all three cyclinders.

Like a Ford EcoBoost

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You entered the wrong one then:

Could always pop across the bridge:

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:joy:

All the graph really shows is I’ve done some more hours on the bike! :joy:

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Feeling ok at the mo, and according to Garmin random number generator I should probably be doing the race right now before any semblance of fitness disappears:

Not sure I believe any of the actual numbers, still it’s nice to see the line pointing up not down.

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Nah, this is the graph you want!
Power Curve over last four weeks :see_no_evil::joy:
I’m ā€œa bit worseā€ than my best :+1:t3:

My TrainingPeaks PMC is atrocious :shushing_face::man_shrugging:t4:

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1240W peak power though :astonished: :clap:

What are you, a tumble dryer?

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Ha ha ha :rofl:
You have to remember that I’m 85-90kg.

That was going up Mow Cop and we all had a great day and I was playing at silly beggars again :slight_smile:
That was the start of my LONG RANGE attack…950W 5s power, 426W 5min power, 392W 10min power, 336W 20min power (which was 383W NP, apparently, must have done a few attacks in amongst that)

…I then really struggled for the remainder of the ride :see_no_evil:

Second photo on here, I think?
https://www.strava.com/activities/6782004888

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Impressive stuff :muscle:

Sadly I have a hunch the real reason my vo2max numbers appear to have risen is that I got a new watch which is more accurate at recording heart rate. Rather than a controlled 6 month fitness ramp (I wish)

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Yeah 36, 37 for me I think too. Just running like … never had any PRS for triathlon other than ā€˜got round’ although I had a quite respectable time for that Leeds Ripon tri back in 2010. Got a real buzz from that and a few weeks later I’d taken my brothers spot in the Alpe D’huez race. Then Helvellyn in the autumn. Then sadly I had to give my brother back all his gear… don’t know if I’ll make Cotswold’s - I could get round I suppose. Running is improving to a degree. But it’s slow going. Good to have a goal but don’t want to injure myself again. Physio said yeah I’ll be ok as long as I don’t smash it. I said don’t worry there’s never any chance of me smashing it, it’s just a fun day out in Lycra

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^^^^sandbagging^^^^

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