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With only 4 weeks passing since the ITT, it wasn’t too challenging to retain some of my TT form.

A couple of weeks of training and a few Zwift Volcanos and I felt good.

Keiichi and myself did the Seniors Duo this year. We initially trained for2 laps but found out just before that we were only doing1 hot lap. Keiichi didn’t have his TT bike so we were a bit limited on aero marginal gains.

I got there with an hour to go and managed a decent warmup in the blazing heat. Keiichi got stuck in traffic due the yellow ribbon run and only arrived 20 minutes before we started. The prep turned into a mad dash and he got literally zero warmup before we hit the start.

We aimed for a 46 average and managed to maintain this rolling speed despite an oscillating headwind on the way out. Our biggest competition were Integrated Riding and we could see that we were catching them at halfway. We were both slightly cooked on the return leg but still managed to raise the pace. 1 lap is too short to hit max heart rate but I got to 176 which is pretty high!

Practise had been a 90/10 work split between the two of us. Was really pleased to get more help on this run and it was more like 70/30 in reality.

We finished first - 20 seconds up on second place. Super happy with the run with a 45.4K. speed for the lap.

The Quad team were on track for a record time but thwarted by Francois dropping his chain midway. After losing time in the dismount and fix, the boys were sadly only able to grab3rd on the podium.

A super hot day out but rewarding. Looking forward to getting back onto some normal training ahead of Batam.

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