2026 WCC Time Trial Schedule

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Hi everyone,

Kev and I connected and here are the dates for the 2026 season!

TT 1: May 6th

TT 2: June 3rd

TT 3: July 8th

TT 4: Aug 19th

(Provincial TT is Aug 7th in Ottawa)

Start Location:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/MoXELUbdu1atJti89?g_st=ic

Start Time: 6:30pm

Route:
Streicher Line…This course is a beautiful out and back course just north of our WCC Bamberg loop. It’s mostly flat with a couple of rollers, crossing over a nice river and bridge with a safe turnaround to head back to the start.

Strava Segment:
https://www.strava.com/segments/31684838

Parking:
Please park on the North side of Manser road or Lichty and ride down to the start.

Description:
All ability levels are welcome. Any bike type is welcome as well (no e-Bikes). People have raced on road, TT, cross/gravel, MTB’s, hand cycles etc.

There are two categories “Aero” and “Road Bike”:

Aero:
Anything goes (No UCI restrictions)

Road:
No clip on aerobars, no invisible aerobars/hands draped over the tops, no TT disc rear wheels, no TT specific helmet, (Aero road helmets are fine, skin suits are fine).

All bike types are welcome. If you have clip on aerobars or want to use invisible aerobars / hands draped over the tops on your road bike you can participate, you’ll just be slotted into the aero category.

If you have specific questions prior to your ride please feel free to ask here.

Please reply below with your estimate time for the course and Kevin will create the start sheet with seed times

Thanks and see you there!
Chris and Kevin

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Chris and Kevin thanks very much for organizing this!!

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Hey Chris,

Any guidance on how we can guess a time with no experience? 28 mins if I assume 30km/ hour?

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Hey Zack, this is a good online calculator to help estimate speed/time etc.

Distance of the TT is ~14.05km. There are also online calculators where you can add more specific details like assumptions for aero, rolling resistance, course details, and it’ll spit out a time based on what you enter for power. :slight_smile:

Here’s another: An interactive model-based calculator of cycling power vs. speed

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I’m interested in all of the attached dates, thank you for organizing this!

Predicted time for me and my road bike:
25 minutes

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I’m hoping to make it out on May 6th and aiming for 18:30

Emily

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That Segment link seems dead, I think this works;

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Jake and Ian McLean will both attend

Ian is targetting 21:00 (Merckx)
Jake is Targetting 17:45 (Aero)

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Braden will attended and will aim for about 21:00

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I’ll be there. 19:30 estimate

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Planning to be there if I can get my tri bike set up in time. Guessing at 22.30

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Good evening everyone,

Thank you to all that have added their names and time estimates, that is very helpful.
To anyone who is thinking about this, please feel free to join in. This is a service that we offer to YOU the WCC community. The TT is a race of truth to give you an idea where your fitness level is, and to work on pacing.

  • It is very useful for all our Triathletes who are gauging their fitness for an upcoming event and to work on pacing.
  • For any racers who want to work on their TT efforts and see how their fitness level is at this point in the season.
  • for everyday cyclists to see what it feels like to push yourself to the limit for 30 minutes.
  • for anyone that wants to join in the suffering with “friends” (I’m not sure friends would let a friend do a TT. :rofl: ).

Here are a few items you should be aware of:

  1. I will be at the corner of Streicher & Hutchison at 6:00 p.m. to check riders in… sitting in my Red Kia Optima. Please check in with me and introduce yourself if we haven’t met, it helps to know your name.
  2. We don’t have numbers or timing chips, this is all manual.
  3. The first rider will be off at precisely 6:30.
  4. I will pre-seed everyone according to their estimated times …least fast to fastest… and we will start riders off at 1 minute intervals.
  5. The course is a straight out and back course on a very quiet country road. I have not been down it this year yet, so don’t know what the condition is like. There was some rough pavement last year (which I did see was repaired last fall), but you never know what the winter season has done to it.
  6. Ride with caution… keep your eyes forward.
  7. It is spring planting season, so there could be farm vehicles on the road, obey the traffic rules and do not put yourself at risk by passing unsafely.
  8. The course will have KM markers (yellow sandwich boards at the side of the road). At 11km to go, 7km to go turn around point (there will be cone on the road and Chris will be manning the turn), 3km to go, 1 km to go, and start finish.
  9. If you could, please yell your name as you cross the finish line – especially on the first night – so I am sure to know who it is.
  10. Try not to congregate on the road at the start/finish before and after. When waiting to start, stay off to the side of the road as best you can. After you finish wait at the stop sign at Hutchison… there is plenty of space there, I will come there after the last rider finishes.

If you have never done a TT before, we are a very welcoming club “race”, we wait for EVERYONE to finish. If I have time, I will announce the finish times at the finish line once the last person crosses the line and has a chance to come back. Unless the weather is crap, then I will post the results here in the forum, after i get home.

Please come out one and all. Remember Chris and I do this for YOU.

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Targeting 22:15 (aero)

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I’ll be manning the turnaround and monitoring traffic, looking forward to seeing you all there!

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20:30 in aero category. Thanks!

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Here are the results for the TT tonight. Great effort put out by all riders tonight… the headwind heading out was vicious, but that tailwind coming back was delightful.

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I hope to see everyone at the next one in June!

Kevin

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Great riding everyone, it was a pretty brisk, cold headwind and everyone was flying. :slight_smile:

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Thanks for coordinating Chris and Kevin, a good chance to stretch out the legs

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Thanks! Great event as usual. I just wanted to call out some impressive MX times here. I went down a rabbit hole on Strava and found a cluster around 20:30: Eric Reid, Andrew Lambert, Adam Myers, and now Braden’s newly minted time (sorry if I missed anyone). I think sub-20:00 is in reach on a good night. Just saying…

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…oh yeah, was Jake MX? typo or unbelievable achievement :rofl: either are equally likely

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