Turbo Man's Fitness Blog: 10 Mile TT

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'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' Theodore Roosevelt 23 April 1910

Saturday, 30 August 2008

10 Mile TT

Oh man that was hard. 10 mile TTs are hard, they are supposed to be, and I was very close to the vomit threshold for most of the last 3 miles. You must know the sensations, that horrible taste in your mouth, the lack of saliva, the feeling of "Please make it end". So how hard was it? Well my last max HR test gave me a figure of 182; I peaked today at 186!

And all for what? 24:44. I shouldn't be too disappointed as this is a course PB by 15 seconds, at a speed of 24.24mph, but I was hoping to be quicker. To be honest the conditions weren't great; although it was a balmy 24 degrees and dry there was a noticeable cross wind which seemed to be in your face all the time. The course is not a fast one; I think "rolling" is the best description for it, and there is a killer slope (it's not really a hill) about 250m from the finish line. You have given your all and then the road kicks up and really hurts, your legs are burning and your lungs are screaming and you see your speed slowly bleed away - how painful is that?

So a course PB but not the sub 24 mins I had set myself for the season. Lets hope I go better at The Vit next weekend.

1 comment:

Iron Girl said...: Course pb by 15s - that is not to be sniffed at! Well done Turbo! Considering how strong your cycling is, an improvement of that time is very good. Let's hope the Vit proves to be at least equally as succesful; 31 August 2008 at 10:56