Did second 25TT of life (on anniversary of first) Wednesday night. Had goal of getting under an hour but sadly did not quite make it. No Powertap (since its axle sheared in half..) so had unfamiliar experience of looking at average speed and HR to judge pacing.
Got depressed when finding it hard after halfway and had slipped under pace approaching turn. Too late realised that we were riding into a headwind and by the time I had snapped myself out of doldrums had too much to do on return leg. Final time as 1:00:56, over 3 minutes better than last year but still tad frustrating.
Did not realise but I was riding in legendary company as John Woodburn was also taking part. He just managed to beat 60 minutes, not bad for someone past 70.
Stuck resultant time into watts calculator http://www.kreuzotter.de/english/espeed.htm
and interestingly it guesstimated power was 297W, so pretty much what I think FTP is now. Also reckoned I would do 57 mins or so if had tri-bike but will keep from straying down that route for time being at least.
Hoping Powertap will be back from Banjo soon and will try again....
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