How to ride your first club 10 mile time trial

How to ride your first club 10 mile time trial

Time trialling is the simplest form of bike racing. It’s just you against the clock, which is why the discipline is known as contre la montre in French. The British in particular have a strong connection with time trials which dates back to the early days of organised racing. The government banned racing on the […]

My Time Trial Season – 2018

My Time Trial Season – 2018

I finally got myself into time trials in 2017 after years of putting it off due to knowing I’d have to invest in a whole set of new kit and a fancy new bike. I started with some club TTs and some of the Open TTs that were easy to get to from my then […]

Women’s Time Trialling for Novices – My First Year

Women’s Time Trialling for Novices – My First Year

The first club time trial My first time trial took place on a cold and murky New Year’s Day 2018. It was the K7/5 between Stafford and Cannock that promised to be ‘downhill overall’ – there’s a lot of this in time trialling. A course promises to be downhill, but it’s invariably the most uphill […]

VTTA Open TT April 2018 – K48/10

VTTA Open TT April 2018 – K48/10

The third Open TT of my 2018 season took place last weekend. Hosted by the VTTA, it used the K48/10 circuit which I’d raced on a year ago in another Open TT. Definitely not a circuit to set a PB on, it’s lumpy and has two half-decent climbs to get over. The wind wasn’t hugely kind […]

Stratford Open TT April 2018 – K33/10D

Stratford Open TT April 2018 – K33/10D

Last weekend I took part in my second Open TT of the year. The first one, in Coalville, was hilly and definitely didn’t suit me but gave me a chance to test out my new time trial bike in anger. Having had chance to set the seat to something close to the right height and […]

Coalville Wheelers Open TT Feb 2018 – A10/34

Coalville Wheelers Open TT Feb 2018 – A10/34

  After starting my time trial season on New Year’s Day in Stafford this was my next opportunity to whet my time trial appetite. For the first time I’ve now got a proper time trial bike, a disc wheel, decent skinsuit, a non-second hand helmet and was looking forward to getting out there and seeing what […]

Stafford Road Club New Year Time Trial

Stafford Road Club New Year Time Trial

Happy new year! On the first day of 2018, Stafford Road Club ran their annual New Year’s Day club time trial. I’ve recently moved up that way and after all the snow and ice, I’ve not really been out with my new club that much. Having a blast in a time trial seemed a good […]

Saracen RC Open TT 2017

Saracen RC Open TT 2017

This was to be my first time trial in a little while, having busied myself with sportives and managing to overdo things and strain a knee after the Civil Service races. It was also another couple of firsts. My first go on the K33/10D circuit just south of Alcester in Warwickshire and my first time […]

Civil Service Cycling Championship 2017

Civil Service Cycling Championship 2017

One of the perks of working in the Civil Service (for non-UK people, think employee of the state) is that they have a sports club for members. They run a lot of days for various experiences, like my recent venture onto the velodrome. One of those is also a National Championships run on the cycle […]

Springfield Financial Open TT – 24th June 2017

Springfield Financial Open TT – 24th June 2017

2017 is the first year that I have been riding time trials. Starting off with some club time trials, I’ve also started competing in Open Time Trials against lots of other people. I started off with the Coventry CC ride and followed it up with the Walsall RCC one shortly afterwards. The Springfield Financial Open […]