I feel the need, the need for.... ...a glass of celebratory Wine Society Merlot

Well I seem to have gone rather quickly in today's Chronos RT 10 mile time trial.

I posted 21 minutes and 44 seconds to be precise, which is 5 seconds quicker than my fastest time ever (set in 2014 on the F15/10 after a week of 18,000m and 500 miles-ish of Alpine climbing training).

I am going quicker now than I did 10 years ago. I must, therefore, be like a fine wine, maturing with age.

There can be no other explanation.

Thanks go to a support network in the shape of my team mates, in 'the Engine' and elsewhere - and a VERY supportive family who let me traipse around the East Midlands each weekend from April-September in pursuit of fitness, mental well-being and performance improvements.

F2A/10 Chronos RT - about 6 miles in. Thanks to Davey Jones for the pic.

I did smash my body and brain to bits into the prevailing headwind going out to the turn. Some would say there isn't much of either to smash.

Positive splits, it's the only way.

Some pointless data that only me and Steve Robinson care about.