WCC TT #5 - Wednesday Sept. 11th - Final TT of the season!

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Our final TT of the season is coming up Wednesday Sept 11th!

Please note the start time will be 6:30pm

Date: Wednesday, Sept. 11th
Location: Streicher Line
Start Time: 6:30pm (Registration 6:00pm with Kevin S).
Estimated Finish Time: 7:30pm
Discipline: Time Trial
Culture: Open to all ability levels!
Approximate Distance: 14km

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

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.

Thanks and see you Sept 11th!

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Targeting 23 minutes. Aero category.

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Going to target around 19:10 this time.

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19:20 for me. Trying to break 44kph.

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Just realized all my TT stuff is packed for my move, so I’m going to bail on this and do the rec ride instead. Sorry.

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still plenty of space for people to ride the TT one last time this year. I will be at the site to take sign in’s at 6:00. The weather looks perfect with light winds and warm temps. Come one, come all!!

Kevin

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Target 20:30 Minutes - Road

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Jake will be there tonight. He’s targetting sub 18:00 so 17:55.

Ian is back to the track on Wednesdays so will miss this one unfortunately.

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I’d like to try and get out - but might not make the start line till 640 or so - would that be an issue? (never did a road tt before so probably guess around 23ish pace)

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I think I’ll try to make it out, as well. Slot me in somewhere around @MDBanker in the 20:30-21:00 range. Road Bike category.

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I’m targeting 19:45. Thanks Kevin!

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I made a few fit tweaks…I’ll either go super fast or super slow :smile:

Hoping sub 19 will be possible but we’ll see. (My legs are still sore from squats two days ago)

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I’ll put you at the end…you can start when you arrive. Thanks Will.

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30-35 mins for me? :crossed_fingers:

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That’s a wrap for another Time Trial season at WCC. We had an absolutely stunning evening for a TT… the weather was perfect with a very light South wind … which helped a little on the way out, and made the home leg harder. If you maintained an aero position and stayed still on the bike it wasn’t that bad. Like all TT’s – it hurt a lot… but you were rewarded with a PB because of the conditions. I personally set a PB by 30 seconds… and many of the other’s set PB’s as well. It was a great evening of suffering.

Official results here:

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Young Mr. McLean with a blazing fast ride … he sure is something to watch!!

we had a great season of TT’s … the weather was mostly cooperative (or we changed the date to accommodate). The new TT route is a challenging course, that doesn’t allow you to rest. If the wind is from the East (which happened a number of times this year) it becomes an epic struggle on the return leg… but it would have been a extra fast way out – so it evened out. The traffic has increased on this road in the last couple months, but it’s still very reasonable and I personally think the drivers a more courteous out there then on Crowsfoot… but that could just be me.

It’s been a pleasure timing for all you Time Trialists. I look forward to another season next year. I hope many of you return and hope to see many new faces as well. It’s a great way to capture your fitness trend… for myself I increased my fitness by about a minute over the year. I had hoped this would be the case, as I was coming back from numerous injuries, but these numbers are the proof. Now to continue the weight loss so I can progress the speed… there are two quick ways to increase FTP… build strength, or lose weight. If you are basically at your max strength, then losing weight is the way to go… and as I’m an overweight ol’ codger, that’s what I have to do. :wink:

Keep up the steady improvements everyone and let’s meet again at the TT’s next spring. (Or come out to the Velodrome and ride with us this winter.)

Your friendly neighborhood Commissaire.
Kevin Scheerer

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Thanks Kevin for all your great work and thanks to everyone that came out this year to test and improve their fitness.

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:raised_hands: Thanks for a great TT season, Kevin!

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Thanks Kevin for organizing!! It was great to finally get out.

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Thanks Kevin!
Beauty night for my first road TT - felt I did well with my pacing - but definitely need to work on position - hard to keep down aero for that long! :rofl:.

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Thanks @Bopper & @ChrisP for organizing!

Glad I was finally able to make it out to a TT before the season ended, but now have a sudden desire to n+1 with something a little quicker… :wink:

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