Looks like everyone had fun last night. I guess those of you who are new to TTT probably understand why some of us have enjoyed doing them so much. They are a real mixture of teamwork and personal pain. Fantastic!
We had similar fun trying to get our paceline right last night. We've tried it a few times on the Thursday TTTs with varied success. The range of abilities in our team has often meant we've struggled to keep a rotation going with the stronger riders pushing too hard and creating a blob instead of a line.
We tried to get that right last night and we were better, but still work to do. We went for 30s rotations but we've decided at the moment that's too short for us. I'm sure once we get the line and rotations correct, then 30s will be good, but we've decided to go for 1 minute next time, and to allow people to call it if they need to ease back earlier. We didn't do that good on calling the rotations. Partly my fault as team captain, so we're going to work on that on Thursday as well. Interested that you also started using the same tactic of calling for the next rider at 10s. We were aiming for 5s, but practically it was often nearer 10s. An getting the slip back off the front and sprint to get back in the draft takes a bit of practice as well.
We started a bit raggedly as a result of all that but ended up going well. I think we got home in 35.35 but that's estimated off Zwiftpower as the WTRL site is still down. We were sitting 10th out of 23 last night in B6 before the WTRL site went down. A little faster at the start and we could have possibly finished 6th - our second half was much stronger!
With a 6th placed finish last week I hope we'll get a good placing when the revised league table are published going into Round 3.
And if anyone wants more TTT fun if you're at a loose end on Thursday, give me a shout and I'll see if we can get you a guest ride with WTRL.
thankfully I just managed to get across the line at the end.
