Time Trial

[RoadRaven]

Thanks, RoadRaven! I am 38, and really LOVE doing the TT! You should consider a tandem ride despite difference in cadence - DH and I are at two VERY different racing levels, but the tandem allows us to stay together, and the cadence adjustment comes with time and miles on the road. We have been riding our tandems for several years, and I really LOVE to do the TT on it as well (although the past two weeks, there has been some swearing involved ).

And I'm 41 this month - if we were in the same country we'd be racing the same races at the local club (Vet 1 35-44) and sometimes in nationals (Vet 1 35-39, Vet 2 40-44).
I'd love to do the tandem thing with my partner - its one of the great pleasures we get from cycling - being able to do it together. The younger children still limit this, but not for too much longer. Tandem would make it better... yesterday we both raced (not a TT, just a road race) and wanted to hear about each others races... but we both came in at different times, so we didn't see each other finish (I was at the car getting a jacket when he arrived) and then our older boys want to dissect their races, so we listen to them.

You'd be surprised - I do our club TT each week, in between my training and racing on the weekends (I don't have kids, in case you can't tell...).

I am looking forward to the club's summer series, because as well as the Saturday club races, they also organise Thursday evening TTs, usually based from the local school - they don't count towards series points, but the results do go up on the web page. I am hoping to be able to get to some of these this summer - I watched with some envy as my partner and oldest son headed off last summer.

RoadRaven - we have 9 seconds to trim before setting our club course TT record on the tandem.... The longest 9 seconds in eternity . I'll keep you posted - next race is this coming Weds. There are worse things to which to be addicted!

Good luck with it... I'll be thinking of you. I have to wait two weeks (well, 1 week and 6 days... hmmm... how many sleeps is that???) til my next TT race...

Raven