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Re: Calga TT
Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:07 pm
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Re: Calga TT
Postby 1q2w3e4r » Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:16 pm
Are you using it? Worth the upgrade?
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Re: Calga TT
Postby lukas » Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:09 pm
I went out for a crack at the 25km today, and I reckon the outleg was into a slight headwind, and the return with a slight tail. It felt that way anyway. I had a similar discrepancy, though I don't have a previous effort to compare it to, nor do I have a power meter.1q2w3e4r wrote: This month's return leg was 4:11 seconds faster than the out leg. That seems like a massive discrepancy, I've usually always been 2:00 to 2:15 faster on the return leg, I'm wondering if I paced it well today, or left a bit too much in the tank on the first half of the course. It also hurt, but not as much as last month. Maybe FTP is on the rise.
Bike, equipment, race weight all unchanged. Weather was probably better last month with the rain and atmospheric barometer
I was blowing pretty hard on the way out and was 30.5kph at the turn. I know it's predominately downhill on the return but it felt as if I was being assisted by some wind. I crossed the line in 43 and a half (ish) mins. Average was something like 34.5kph. This was just on my road bike, no clips ons etc. I think I may invest for month. It was a lot of fun. Some very nice TT rigs out there.
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Re: Calga TT
Postby 1q2w3e4r » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:32 am
I'll ask a mate who did it as well and see what he thinks.
Sounds like you had a cracker ride! Well done I'm finding it a lot of fun.
What pacing strategy did you use?
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Re: Calga TT
Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:46 am
Since I have clients using it, yes. I don't think there are any serious bugs in current version.1q2w3e4r wrote:No, still on WKO+ 2 something, the initial problem where some people claimed to have lot all their data made me decide to hold off until all the bugs were sorted.
I can't really say whether the additional/improved functionality is of value to you or not.1q2w3e4r wrote:Are you using it? Worth the upgrade?
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Re: Calga TT
Postby lukas » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:24 am
Yes it's a lot of fun. I joined up to ATTA so I'll be back next month for sure with some clip on's and a bit more TT experience in tow.1q2w3e4r wrote: Sounds like you had a cracker ride! Well done I'm finding it a lot of fun.
What pacing strategy did you use?
I've never time trialled before outside of hill climb events, so I didn't really have a strategy.. just not go out too hard and completely blow up. I probably did end up going out a bit hard, but not knowing the course it was a bit difficult to really know.
My younger brother came in at nearly 37kph on my old road bike.. no aero kit. Put me in my place a bit!
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Re: Calga TT
Postby 1q2w3e4r » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:24 pm
I did however do a km by km breakdown on each ride, noting the time, power, speed, cadence and then noted the cumulative total as well of power (NP/AP), speed, cadence, etc. I lost a lot of time from the 9 km mark to the 13 km mark.
The Calga results say there was a very light north easterly but I didn't notice it. Maybe I just didn't have my head fully in the game on the out leg, although I made an effort to keep the wattage up within the desired range. Maybe next time I'll just go as hard as I can without watching to PM as much from around 10 minutes in and see if I blow up, if nothing else its a different pacing strategy.
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Postby philip » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:59 am
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Re: Calga TT
Postby Chris249 » Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:12 pm
Secondly, would anyone know of an overlay or GPS track that shows how hard a good rider would be pushing themselves at various places on the course? I'm never sure whether I'm pushing it too hard on the hills or flats, so it would be interesting to see how fast the good guys try when going up the hills etc.
* Last time there, I met an old rival from windsurfer racing who said he was also doing 43/35s. Considering he's been concentrating on the bike for years I was damn happy to be pulling the same numbers that he was and felt quite smug - until I found out that he meant that he was doing 43kmh and finishing in 35 minutes (and second place). Damn!!!
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Re: Calga TT
Postby 1q2w3e4r » Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:21 pm
I went up it at about 17-17.5 km/h last time seated the whole way at a cadence of 94rpm and changed back up to the big ring at the top to the finish which is just under 3k (2.97k) and averaged 41.7 to the finish.
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Re: Calga TT
Postby Chris249 » Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:53 pm
I can recall seeing 17 on the way up that hill on the way to a 43.05 finish, so it seems I wasn't too far off - but I was pushing it a bit hard and standing at times, from memory. I think I need to check what sort of cluster I'm running, as staying on the big ring seems a bit hard.
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Re: Calga TT
Postby lukas » Wed Mar 31, 2010 2:58 pm
I’ve purchased some basic clip on aero bars and adjusted my position on my Canyon slightly. Hoping to better my effort from last month with these aero improvements, and a good month of training in the legs.
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Re: Calga TT
Postby 1q2w3e4r » Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:19 pm
I managed to beat last month's time, I went out harder on the out leg this time and hit the turnaround in 22:39, so 1:11 or so faster than last month. The return leg was slower though, I managed to finish 15 seconds faster than last time which was nice but probably took it slightly too easy in the first few km after the turn around which is evident from the 50+ seconds slower return leg.
Power was bang on 4 w/kg with an average speed of 35.5 kph. I'm thinking any further gains are going to be hard to come by, still will be fun to try.
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Re: Calga TT
Postby toolonglegs » Mon Apr 05, 2010 6:40 pm
Good ride btw.
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Re: Calga TT
Postby philip » Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:12 am
I don't have any aero gear besides the aerobars, it would be interesting to know how much difference a disc wheel/helmet/etc. would make.
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Re: Calga TT
Postby philip » Sun Apr 03, 2011 11:09 am
I just read Alex's first post:philip wrote:it would be interesting to know how much difference a disc wheel/helmet/etc. would make.
2 minutes is pretty huge. I would've been extremely happy with 37 minutes, that would give me an average of 40.5km/h!Alex Simmons/RST wrote: On an aero set up I could get that down to ~ 0.28m^2 pretty easily I'd expect which would increase speed by nearly 2km/h and would drop time by ~ 2-minutes without a change in power.
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Re: Calga TT
Postby foo on patrol » Sun Apr 03, 2011 4:27 pm
You need too blow harder, so that it clears you further.
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