Thanks Daz, I found that too and proceeded to remove my block... initially I wasn't strong enough to get the lockring undone, so called a friend, who could not make it until very early this am (before his race elsewhere) so decided to get the HUGE wrench that I use for uncoupling my gas tank out and with the extra leverage of the much longer handle managed to get it offOriginally Posted by daz h
The other block was easier to remove... Bothe were cleaned and put back on the other wheels... so I did use the Mavics after all...
But... It was BLOODY HARD! It was a handicap race, so the 4th cats and women set off first, followed by the 2nd/3rd cats and those followed by the scratch group of really fast riders... 4 lap course... so I get dropped by the 4th cat group by being wrestled off the wheel I was holding and pushed to the side!!! :-O when we go up a hill at the end of lap 1... and I keep riding, as I am planning on jumping on the next group... So they come and I jump in and... the pace of that group is much more even, so I stay with them, bury myself in the bunch. Then when we go over that hill again, I struggle to stay with them and there are I am, dropped again, with another 1 3/4 lap to go :-O
So decision time: do I TT round and see it as good expereince and practice and still finish? There is a women's race within this race, 7 women entered, two are either behind me or stepped off... so if any of the others puncture, crash or drop out, I may just stand a chance LOL... So I continue, on my own... Thing is, I managed to maintain a pace averaging 24 mph, on my own, on an undulating circuit... So although I came in last, I still finished! Others got lapped or stepped off... so they in theory were behind me!
I learnt two things: I need to improve my climbing and I need to work on the surges, change in pace...
I also have just entered a 50m TT, because if I can average abt 24 mph for 45 miles, on a roadbike, on an undulating circuit, I can probably do quite well in a 50m TT
Knackered legs now...
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