NBRC Astwood '10' 25th June 2025

This event was moved from the scheduled Brogborough course owing to roadworks. I decided to try the backup Cervelo P3C TT bike for this event, largely because I was interested to see if my recently resolved foot pain issue might move my L-R balance back closer to 50:50. The bike has Favero Assioma power meter pedals and venerable Hed H3 trispokes front and rear. I think it looks the part...here I am just after turning left onto the main road.

I have this set up with SRAM 11-speed Red eTap - there are gear switches on the base bar but I'm using the blip box as switches while on the aero extensions - you can see it by my right hand in the photo. This works well, but I'm going to try and sort out a more rigid way of affixing the blip box. 

Another warm evening - the sweat dripping onto my Garmin seemed to be trying to change the screen display! I guess that’s a problem with touch screen bike computers…apart from that I found it a bit difficult to keep my power up. It's possible that there's just a difference in power meters or that the conditions militated against me.

The full results are at the NBRC website - complete with photo gallery by Jim Eastment (who took the photo above).

At any road, I was a little down on my expectations. I still came in third place (first place on veteran standard). Here are the data (as usual click for an enlargement). And i can report that my L:R balance is much improved at 54:46.