TT Smackdown 2025

I came out of T2 at a ridiculous pace - should’ve looked at my watch :joy:
Luckily, I slowed down by the second Km and settled into something resembling a rhythm until :poop: at 5-6km mark (where the HR falls down)
Man, it was a nightmare getting the suit back on!!!

Then my HR just got lower as the run wore on, until the last part when I was trying to get under 4:45 - as I’d clocked the run at 20.7km last time.
It was bloody 21.2km this year :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

What level smoothing do you have for that graph>?

Erm, none?
That’s just direct screenshot from my phone app.

The yellow one is cadence / so you can see where I walked aid stations, slowing down before and gently speeding up on exit

Ah ok, phone app must default to smoothing it then.

@gingerbongo - Non smoothed version from laptop:

HR is consistent throughout - metronomic, innit.

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It was DEFINITELY hotter than 20° when you finished.

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No way.
I had goose pimples in the massage tent, it was that cold :cold_face:

Ha - so did I. Tho I regularly get chills once I stop and the litres of sweat adorning my body start to cool down. Needed to get out the tri suit - which for once makes a finisher t-shirt quite handy!

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Maybe that was to do with the massage :point_up_2: :no_mouth:

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Nah, it’s 'cos the temps were mid-teens and everyone else is lying about how warm it was :sheep:

#Sheeple

Sounds like you may have been dehydrated or a touch of sunstroke? At Race to the King at 55kms and when I DNF’d SDW100 last year, it was the hottest part of the day and pretty toasty at over 32C and I sat in both aid stations with my jacket on shivering.

It can creep up on you without you being aware sometimes.

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I got the shakes once I sat down in the finishers tent at Bolton. Had to put a hoodie on. I put it down the body realising what you’ve just put it through

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I had sunstroke on holiday in Cuba once. Shivering, then sweating, and it made my back ache like hell. Spent a day in the air con apartment and was right as rain after that.

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Just catching up with this thread, Clearly a great event, but sorry about crash @BadAsh

@gingerbongo hope you didn’t do any more damage, but glad you made it to the start line.

Next year I will prioritise a UK race and try to join an many TT’ers as possible. Would love to race a fit @gingerbongo @Poet I think @chickenboy ages up next year, so we won’t be in same AG. Would be brilliant if we can get @Chriswim back in the UK for a visit too

Could have a Tritalk party after… except we will probably discover that we are all exceedingly boring loners all sitting in silence.

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Yes but we would be boring loners sitting together in silence . It’s like the party equivalent of jazz hands :grin:

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I reckon if you raised your hands/forearms, it would bring your shoulders down slightly. You have a year to experiment!

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As in some sort of spacer type solution to lift the bars further away from the ground, or tilting the bars closer to 90 degrees from the handlebars?

Tilt the aerobras (sic).

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Yeah, i think i did that more last year, when i had the clip ons with the Canyon. I think i said above, that suits me much more, but i’d need to invest in some more ‘cup’ based aerobras (see what i did there) so i can drop my elbows into them to provide some more support.

I did see the Dan Bigham aerobars have just launched a ‘cheaper’ version of the Anemoi called the Minemoi (i think). Xmas list maybe … but also depends on what i want to target next year. Trying to decide … which seems silly as it’s only flippin July!!

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What do you mean by cup - deeper with a wider side?
I got some of these; as I kept bouncing off my flatter arm rests.