NSW Individual Time Trial Championships entries close 10 Jul

[mikesbytes]

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9am Sunday 24 July 2011

Calga (Jones Road) 20km Circuit (43km Long Course Loop



I've entered

[mikesbytes]

What's the difference between the 20k course and the 25k course on average speed?

[Camilla]

I feel I have to say something just to get this thread up the board.

[T-Bone]

Hmm 43km, i might give it a crack.

[Simon Llewellyn]

I'm in. It's good fun this one. The more DHBC riders the more fun it will be!!!

[mikesbytes]

I think the 43k course is the same one that we did the 2009 TTT on

[Camilla]

Entries have been extended till noon Wednesday 13

[mikesbytes]

Mark L out (sick).

I need to arrange alternative transport

[Adrian E]

Looks fantastic. Really wish I could make it.

[mikesbytes]

Alex 10th 1:11:52
Camilla bronze 42:07
Eleri 7th 42:56
Ian 16th 36:06
Mike bronze 34:17

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[timyone]

woo hoo!! go Camilla!!!! they didnt tll you where they came mike?

[mikesbytes]

Matt silver 32:18
Joshua silver 30:03

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[Camilla]

Thanks Tim! I'm well chuffed! Pretty soft category it has to be said, but I did have to beat someone, and given my current physical state I'm very very happy. Who am I kidding: even if I was in fighting form I'd be very very happy. Best weekend ever!

Looks like Mike got a bronze too. Cracking time! Sorry Eleri and I didn't hang around to see you boys roll in but we actually had no idea what time to expect anyone. And after last night's excitment we were both a little sleep deprived...

Beautiful day for a ride.

Woah: new results just rolled in. Nice work Matt & Joshua! Go DHBC!

[timyone]

lol!! go team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eleri]

Race report

Firstly, Camilla and I actually got there - but that included both being sleep deprived (but also inspired) because of one C Evans. If we had listened to me we would have parked at the start and ridden to the finish to warm up. Fortunately we didn't. If we both hadn't held our nerve we would have been frightened out of our lives by a speeding idiot in a truck who decided we needed a shake up and so drove really close to us and then blew his horn. Thanks for that. Then we got momentarily lost and confused and nearly didn't make it ... to the start. All that and the race hadn't started. Fortunately we got there in the knick of time.

I'd decided to ride to a HR % and aimed to sit between 90 and 95%. It mostly helped when I was sitting on 87 or 88 and realised I should be riding harder. Once I settled into a rhythm it was good. I was pleased with my time - I hopefully aimed for 30kph and achieved 29.9 which is my fastest ITT average. And much faster than the ATTA one we did early in July on half the same course. Not bad seem as I'm doing only about 100km a week at the moment and mostly concentrating on running.

Here's Camilla, medalled up with a man she believes to be Kevin the timekeeper and I believe to be Kevin Young.


And here's Camilla and me. She's very happy with her medal!


There's a not so good podium shot, not least because silver person had vanished.

[timyone]

LOL!! kev the time keeper! love it!! (president of cycling nsw also?)

[Camilla]

Yes, as per usual the DHBC Masters Ladies had most of their adventures prior the the race itself. After getting there in the nick of time (thankfully we had also chosen to ignore Eleri's GPS, which was telling us to take a left at one point - onto a road under a bridge 20m below) I was just grateful we already had our transponder holders on from the state Rd titles (something good had to come of that weekend) so as to avoid another embarassing strapping-a-spoke-to-my-fork-with-a cable-tie incident.

Another trap for young players: I remembered my Garmin but not my heart rate moniter strap. Eleri had a spare (who doesn't) so just before the start I cornered Paul Meehan who helped me try and set it to my Garmin. We were half way into the bushes and it was still reading "detect multiple heart rate monitors". I briefly considered telling everyone else to move away, then decided I'd just ride until it hurt. So I've no idea what my heart rate was! But I just had one of those naps where you stare at the ceiling for 40 minutes and inexplicably get up feeling much better.

Meanwhile, I had better either do some more kms or get a new jersey!

It's all professionalism round our neck of the woods.

[Eleri]

Camilla also took a muesli bar in her back pocket because she needed extra ballast, but not in her tummy as she didn't eat it. I'm going to get time trial bars, Camilla's made her go faster than me, especially because she was also weighed down by the muesli bar. I also read somewhere that bars offer best return on investment ($$ spent per reduction in drag) so I need them ... on my steel is real bike.

WMAS 5 was the biggest women's grade. Why? Also faster than lots of the younger grades. Haven't they heard of growing old gracefully?

Congrats Josh, Matt and Mike! Thanks for the wave Mike - sorry we couldn't stick around for the end.

[Stuart]

Can somebody please confirm the div for these riders
Alex 10th 1:11:52 - Elite?
Camilla bronze 42:07 - WMAS2
Eleri 7th 42:56 - WMAS5
Ian 16th 36:06 ??
Mike bronze 34:17 - MMAS4 ?
Matt silver 32:18 - MMAS1 ?
Joshua silver 30:03 - ??

Also Eleri, as much as I love your photographic skills, can I ask you to please get a new phone with a decent camera in it or try cleaning the lens and upping the quality? those shots are not web page material! You could also try taking a real camera - think marketing.

Any one else have any decent pics I can put on the homepage?

[Eleri]

Can somebody please confirm the div for these riders
Alex 10th 1:11:52 - U23M
Camilla bronze 42:07 - WMAS2
Eleri 7th 42:56 - WMAS5
Ian 16th 36:06 MMAS4
Mike bronze 34:17 - MMAS5
Matt silver 32:18 - MMAS1
Joshua silver 30:03 - MMAS2

Fixed

Also Eleri, as much as I love your photographic skills, can I ask you to please get a new phone with a decent camera in it or try cleaning the lens and upping the quality? those shots are not web page material! You could also try taking a real camera - think marketing.

Any one else have any decent pics I can put on the homepage?

The practice at time trials is to do the presentations when the last of the grade has come in, it's fairly informal and there were no photographers anywhere on the course that I saw, nor at the presentations.

Point taken re: camera. I'm pretty sure my employers prioritise helping homeless people over giving me a new fancy phone I did clean the lens and it is already on high res. I'll remember to take my camera in future. In fact, we only remembered to take a photo at the last minute.

[Simon Llewellyn]

Can somebody please confirm the div for these riders
Alex 10th 1:11:52 - Elite?
Camilla bronze 42:07 - WMAS2
Eleri 7th 42:56 - WMAS5
Ian 16th 36:06 ??
Mike bronze 34:17 - MMAS4 ?
Matt silver 32:18 - MMAS1 ?
Joshua silver 30:03 - ??

Also Eleri, as much as I love your photographic skills, can I ask you to please get a new phone with a decent camera in it or try cleaning the lens and upping the quality? those shots are not web page material! You could also try taking a real camera - think marketing.

Any one else have any decent pics I can put on the homepage?

Wow that's alot of medals!!! Congratulations everybody!!!!

[Trouty]

That's awesome ladies, I'm "almost" regretting not going just because the pre and post race antics sounded like a laugh, and much more fun than torturing myself at Waterfall for 80km. One day when I take those time trial bars out of the plastic and get them on my bike I might do it.

But for now - the glory is for all the DHBC Time triallers today and of course Cadel. Yell-ow for Cadel!!!! The weekend can't finish off any better.

[mikesbytes]

My race report

Third – Bronze Medal

This was a bit of surprise, as I’m not a time trailist and I don’t own a time trail bike. After the event, I went back to my car and changed out of my skin suit and then I went to find out what my time was and I got a shock, I had come third. Had to high tail it back to my car and get changed again for the podium photo LOL.

What I did right: My delivery was fairly smooth, I delivered similar performance right thru the race

What I did wrong;

1. Forgot my time trial over socks
2. Missed a turn off had to chuck a u’ie and come back
3. Rode a bit conservatively

I don’t think that my mistakes made a difference in placing, I was solidly beaten for 2nd and I solidly beat 4th

Joshua MMAS2


Matt MMAS1


Mike MMAS5


Couple of notes on those who didn't make the podium today;

Eleri - she had some tough competition, Lise Benjamem only got 4th and her time wasn't that far off Camilla's

Ian - Casts of thousands in his race and he's a heavy track racing dude riding on a course that is way too hilly. There was a bunch of riders with pretty similar times, Ian wasn't that far off a lot more solid result.

Alex - heard that he had been out late. Turned up with one minute to leave and had to race on his under inflated training wheels as no time to change. S***t happens

[MarkL]

Fantastic!! Well done guys and gals!!
I think Cadel inspired you all.

[Camilla]

Too true: Eleri rode a spectacular time but her group is TOUGH! My time would have given me 6th in het category I believe.

And what I said before about having to beat someoneto get to a bronze - I didn't mean that in an negative way, just that I that I really didn't think I had it in me at right now and I was surprised to stay on top of anyone. So apologies if I offended anyone. I know our ladies categories can be diminutive at times, but it's all good and you have to be in it to win it, so carry on girls!

[timyone]

And what I said before about having to beat someoneto get to a bronze - I didn't mean that in an negative way, just that I that I really didn't think I had it in me at right now and I was surprised to stay on top of anyone. So apologies if I offended anyone. I know our ladies categories can be diminutive at times, but it's all good and you have to be in it to win it, so carry on girls!

I personally am glad you cleared that up Camilla, as I was deeply offended..

[shrubb face]

Congrads everyone. Sadly my race wasnt that successful, after 3 weeks off the road bike with the flu it was never going to end well. I went out the night before and consequently slept in and arrived at Calga 2 minutes before my alloted start time. I'd put the skin suit on whilst driving (no recommeneded), grabbed the bike straight out of the van and rode straight to the start line.

I'd already missed my time but thankfully Robyn Sprouste let me go at the end off pack instead, meaning that I was chasing Scott Law, needless to say I never saw him again. With no warm up at all, miss functioning gears, low pressure in my tyres and a slightly headache my time wasnt very spectactular but somehow i beat 2 people anyway.

Lets hope it goes better next year.