Originally Posted by
Andy STi
So I can't just fall back on my experince winning the state champs as a junior in 1986? I won the senior 40km as a 2 one year too, think I got beat by a couple masters that year - how iroinc. Now I suck. Anyway, trying to figure it out. Then there are days when I really don't care and I'll just work for the guys in the race but they give me so much crap about my poor GC ability just because of a 10 mile TT. Fun sport!
I have found for any length of TT under 30 minutes I need a 60+ minute hard warmup, and I have limited fitness and only ride 10 hours a week. Something about that second hour really gets my legs going, it seems risky, especially during a stage race with the emphasis on rest, but at least for me anything under 60 minutes of warmup is going to produce subpar results. You might just have a diesel engine like mine that takes a bit more to warm up.