NATIONAL VTTA 50M TT (and F11/10) - 12th & 13th June 2021 - Cambourne Cambs

VTTA 50: 10th overall; 2nd on Standard

 F11/10: 51st overall ; 21st vet and 2nd on Standard (disaster!) 😫

National VTTA Silver Medal 🥈

One learns that TT can be all about fine margins. My previously reported punctured front tub could not be replaced in time, so I was forced to borrow a wheel....or pull out of the weekend races. Arguably the highest profile races of my season so far, I borrowed a wheel...best I got (and I am grateful) was an early version of clincher HED3, that had literally been sat in an attic for over 10 years....I replaced the tyre with a 25mm Vitoria Corsa, but on a 19mm rim....little did I know this is a big aero no no....creates a "bulb" like affect, and is worse on the front tyre, apparently...after the weekend this came from multiple sources...🤷‍♂️

So, estimated I was at least 30 secs down on the 10, and at least 3 mins on the 50.....recording a 20-04 & 1-46-28 - using Professor Hindsight, these estimates were pretty good if not quite conservative.

On the positive side, I did record a 50 mile power average PB of 305W, and knocked out a 356W on the 10m, so fitness not an issue...my thoughts at this time were, if I was a footy team, that was not winning but training really well, that very soon, some other team is going to get a battering! Read on, to see if that materialised? 😜

Still managed the silver in the National VTTA as of course it is based on Standard, and beaten well anyway by the inspirational Andrew Grant...no complaints there, but would have been nice to have at least put a challenge in! 

Performance of the day though was by my pal Angela Carpenter who recorded 1-46-34, the sixth fastest ever time by a female athlete, and at the age of 52, and arguably not on the fastest course...quite stunning...and to prove it was no fluke, Angela recorded a 1-47 on a very windy Breckland 50 just 2 weeks later....super inspirational performances! 👏💪

Angela Carpenter - on the way to her scintillating 1-46!