Swordscc 10 Mile TT - May 25th - IMPORTANT INFO.

07Lapierre

### Change of venue due to roadworks ###

Black Bull Batterstown

Sign-On at 6.30pm...bring license etc. etc.

More info Here

abc_xyz

Is sign-on in Batterstown proper? The google map is showing a spot on the M3!

El Director

Going to give this a go Weds evening. Is it pretty flat? One thing for sure is we will have the never ending wind to deal with :rolleyes: so fed up with it at this stage but it is good training.

So what would be a decent time for this 10 mile TT?

Beasty

This is a course we do in the vets - Sign on is, I presume, at Black Bull - first left after crossing the motorway a few km before Batterstown. basically park up on the grass verges at the bottom of the hill.

The course is part of the 25mTT we will be doing in a couple of weeks. It's flat (one very minor incline just outside Batterstown, almost exactly 4km in and back the other way 4km from the finish). It's to the first roundabout and back, starting 3km or so before Batterstown.

Fastest vets time this year - 22m 13s, although there was a bit of a South Westerly for that one, it's nothing compared to what is forecast for Wednesday (40kph+ S to SE, which will be a cross wind, helping slightly on the way out, but hindering on the return)

EDIT: It's also the course we did the Boards 10m TT on last August - thread, including our times, here

El Director

Mmmm...might be an idea to leave the front deep section wheel at home then. Thanks for the info Beasty.

Beasty

El Director wrote: »

Mmmm...might be an idea to leave the front deep section wheel at home then. Thanks for the info Beasty.

I used a Zipp 808 at the vets 25mTT yesterday with a disc on the back, and survived the 40 kph+ winds;)

El Director

Beasty wrote: »

I used a Zipp 808 at the vets 25mTT yesterday with a disc on the back, and survived the 40 kph+ winds;)

Good enough for me!

Beasty

El Director wrote: »

Good enough for me!

Sorry - forgot to mention - one very experienced guy decided not to start, and another 5 did not finish

The good news is it tends to be the skinny guys that get blown over;)

Lusk Doyle

Beasty wrote: »

Sorry - forgot to mention - one very experienced guy decided not to start, and another 5 did not finish

The good news is it tends to be the skinny guys that get blown over;)

Just as well I'm marshalling this week so!

Lusk Doyle

Anyone cycling over from skerries / lusk direction?

Beasty

Lusk Doyle wrote: »

Anyone cycling over from skerries / lusk direction?

I reckon we'll only need 3-4 marshalls on that course, so if you have your bike anyeway ....

GlennaMaddy

Lusk Doyle wrote: »

Anyone cycling over from skerries / lusk direction?

No but I'm cycling home to Skerries afterwards, marshalling

Lusk Doyle

GlennaMaddy wrote: »

No but I'm cycling home to Skerries afterwards, marshalling

Thanks. I'm going to drive I think. It's an hour there and back at least.

El Director

Got caught up this evening with stuff so not going to make it grrrr :mad:

Hope everyone else gets on well!!

Lusk Doyle

Small field tonight. Somewhere between 20 - 30 racers. The weather was not as bad as anticipated. 4 riders still managed to get lost on a roundabout with three marshalls despite the fact that the TT was a straight out and back!

Beasty

Where were you marshalling Lusk Doyle?

Anyway 24m 28s for me - 5s outside my PB.

Plan had been to be one of the last to sign on to get a late slot as the wind was supposed to be abating. It was around 30kph from the south and we would be heading NW, giving us a bit of a tailwind on the slightly uphill way out and a head wind on the way back.

Anyway I got there early and did a half-hour warm-up, getting back to the sign-on with a few minutes to spare. Unfortunately they did not set us off in order of sign-on though and I ended up going off number 9 (just under 30 in total)

Overall - average speed 39.2kph
Power - 276w, normalised 281w, max 550w
HR - average 164, max 176
Cadence 94

4km splits:
Q1 - 6m 12s, 289w
Q2 - 6m 3s, 269w
Q3 - 6m 10s, 277w
Q4 - 6m 2s, 273w

So taking into account the initial surge to get up to speed, power output was very consistent. Interestingly my splits on the outward and inward sections were almost identical, suggesting the incline on the way out pretty much negated the impact of the tailwind

Lusk Doyle

At the roundabout where you changed direction from outbound back to inbound. The first marshall on the roundabout shouted to each rider to go "ALL THE WAY AROUND" but some where just too much "in the zone" to hear that!

Beasty

So you allowed them to go the wrong way:p

There's a guy at work that had to be "directed" to the correct exit. Did anyone actually go off-course, or did you intervene before they went off the wrong exit?

Lusk Doyle

I think two of the four managed to correct their path before it was too late. Would have cost them a few seconds but nothing more than that. One young lad seemed to have the blinkers and ear plugs on and went approx 150m up the road on the 3rd exit before he stopped and turned! That probably cost him 30 seconds or so.

GlennaMaddy

Every rider was told it was an out and back course, turn for home at the first roundabout.

Amazed that some riders still asked where the finish was:eek:

Hungrycol

For a flat course it was tough enough. Anyone know when the "official" times will be up?

Thanks Joe and Sam and the marshalls. Where was the finish in the end? Only kidding :rolleyes:

Beasty

Hungrycol wrote: »

Anyone know when the "official" times will be up?

No times, but first 15 places including you and me are up

Highest ever placing for me in a Swords event - can't even claim to be first vet though - maybe they should have an over 50's award:D

Beasty

Full times are now up on the website

Diarmuid

Beasty wrote: »

Full times are now up on the website

Any chance of a link? Couldn't find anything on swordscc.com

niceonetom

I went hunting for it before you. I can't directly link to it because swordscc.com seems to be very strange (frames or something?).

Go to "Club League 2011" in the left hand menu then click "10 Mile TT" at the bottom of the embedded table. Fastest time seems to have been 23.03, but it's a different (easier :P) cirsuit than we use.

TinyExplosions

Link is here

RobFowl

Beasty's going a bit quick !!!


(My PB is 24:11 btw )

Beasty

niceonetom wrote: »

Fastest time seems to have been 23.03, but it's a different (easier :P) cirsuit than we use.

The guy who recorded the fastest time had been hospitalised following a crash 3 days previously

It's the course we did the boards 10TT on last August (although conditions were much better that night than last Wednesday:p)

Beasty

RobFowl wrote: »

Beasty's going a bit quick !!!


(My PB is 24:11 btw )

It was the slowest of my three 10mTTs this year though;)