Kelowna, SadieKate is soooo right. I train over the TT courses I mentioned above, and some other courses I treat as a TT. But I always beat a PB set training when in a race situation. Although a TT is a race against yourself, when you do it in a race situation, setting off a minute apart from other riders, you have two incentives to give you wings… you want to keep in sight of the person in front, and hopefully close the gap a little (then you know you are improving your time) and you want to stay ahead of the person behind (having someone pass you can be a bit of a head f**k and sometimes demoralising).

The first club TT I did I was started first… so I had two goals. One was to do a PB and the other was to make sure no-one caught me. I achieved both.