There no way around it.....this is gunna hurt....Wear your HR monitor & use it for 'pacing' your effort. Have a long warm up, 15 mins E2, then 5 mins just below LT, then 15 mins E2. Try to get to the start line as late as possible after your warmup. Because the TT is 25km, it's to short to be conservative & to long to just go flat out. Soon as you jump, go as hard as you can till you get to LT, keep your cadence up, I'd suggest you try & hold this pace for the 1st 3rd, try & control your breathing, don't 'pant out',then examine how you are feeling....if good, time to push a little harder for the next 3rd. The last 3rd should be getting up toward MHR (how long can you hold 95% +?). This should be the guide as to when you start to 'go'. Leave nothing on the road, absolute max HR to the finish....

Impossible to judge any sort of time without knowing the course, conditions etc...I'm sure you'll be able to tell us after the weekend!.......You with eastern Vets?....anyway, good luck & let us know how you go

Cheers Wilchemy, I had a browse through BBN's results anyway :)

Thanks a lot Hitchy, exactly the sort of info I was after (actually more than I'd hoped for :) )
Best I've averaged was 92% fer 28 minutes... so 95%+? hmm, maybe 10-15 mins.
Yep, I'm with Eastern. Race report on Sat :)

Pushing 40... 4 months to go :eek:
I'm not doing hard days, 6-7 hrs aerobic (70-80%) p/w and only 1 or 2 hard sessions.

Yeah, I'm definitely not a diesel like some of the blokes at the club... they can just keep churning it out fer ages. I'm getting a bit better at that sort of riding, but it's definitely not a strength.

.......that being the case, the best pacing strategy I can offer is.....Lasso Guy Green's seat post & hang on for your life! :D

haha!! that's how I got 92% fer 28 minutes. Damn he's strong! ... and that effort was just rolling through with him.

eh Odin im in the same boat. In a month ill be doing my 1st 25 K TT and im sure its going to be a vomitron esq affair.

my plan was to sit around just above my lactate threshold for the 1st half then ramp it up a bit to the end to make sure i dont blow , followed by full sprint to the line? not a good strategy Hitchy?

yeah, the general idea is sound....but break it down into 3rds, rather than 1/2's....the real secret to doing a good ITT (apart from doing the training), is a good warmup, not just 'rolling' around, but actually giving the engine a bit of a 'Rev'....the closer you can be to your optimal HR at the start, the better off you're gunna be....ever do intervals?.....notice the 'lag' between pushing hard & actually getting into the HR interval?...this is what you want to avoid....so good warm up & get to the start line as late as possible

I'd pull the doona up to my chin and go back to sleep. Only poms and morons ride TT's (stage race TT's excluded) :p

I'll be the guinea pig fer 25km TT newbies :) ... I hadn't gotten any further than LT fer the 1st half and step on it fer the last so your plan was ahead of mine.

I think I'll take the trainer with me so I can do as Hitchy said and keep my HR up where I want it and stay close to the start.

Found this on cyclingnews: (Steve Hogg for a 12km TT)
In club championship/age handicaps, I have to race against Guy Green and 4 other A graders.

Nope.
aww, I haven't raced in 6 weeks... getting toey so I've got to do something.

...this is good, but keep cadence high, don't wanna 'wear' the legs to much before the ITT...you'll need 'em

You haven't raced in 6 weeks, so you choose to do a TT first race back?

Better have a following car so someone can stop to pick up that lung you're gonna cough up.:D

:roflmao:
post of the year.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...39#post2819639

Enough of that you two, or it will be straight to the Naughty Chair! :D ;)

Nah, s'orright, gives me an excuse to give you guys a hard time. ;)

Back on top of GC at Altoona after a fine 2nd place in stage 3.

Pl Bib Name Team Time Behind
1 204 Menzies, Karl Health Net Pro Cycli 5:54:39 0
2 285 Pipp, Frank TargetTraining 5:54:44 @ 00:05
3 200 Henderson, Greg Health Net Pro Cycli 5:54:55 @ 00:16

Now bend over the chair and grasp the legs. Mistress Matagi is going to have to be very strict :p

what do you think, I have Matagi's moniker/screen name/username/whatever changed
to "Mistress Matagi". I could probably dig up an avatar or two to fit the name. . .
course I might get banned for that but what the hell . . .

marty

Good to see. Have they listed him as being Australian yet? :rolleyes:

Uh oh. Is that the uspide down thingy that 531 posted originally? :p


And as for you marty....Bad moderator! 3 x Hail Lances and then pray the Flandis for you! :D

Won a junior TTT state title there with Blackburn in my early days....Gooldy was pulling 1000m turns coming into the finish.

lumpy course, rough road surface. tough work for young blokes.

You do that, and I'll call in the forum equivalent of a thermonuclear strike (Koffee). :D

Bwaaaahahahaha. :roflmao:

Poor Koffee's earned herself a bad rap. Shame she doesn't have time drop by more often, she's good value once she gets into the swing of things. Although marty is pretty entertaining when he cuts loose. :D

don't you mean Tasmanian?




:D