Two minutes doesn’t sound like much—until you’re halfway up the climb at National Champs and every pedal stroke fills your legs with that burning feeling. Mastering your pacing for a two-minute effort can be the difference between flying over the top or blowing up halfway. Recent research on 800-metre runners, the ultimate two-minute specialists (ish), … Continue reading “How to Pace the Perfect 2-Minute Hill Climb”

It’s the night before the big dance – and athletes in Kona are currently having their penultimate night’s sleep before the women’s Ironman World Championships in Kona and we’re of the opinion that course records will probably fall. Historical precedent tells us that it’s the first year where it’s within the realms of possibility that … Continue reading “The Kona Bike Course Record”

It’s become less fashionable a term recently, on account of its horrific overuse, but marginal gains is the idea that if you make incremental improvements to your setup or training that it will add up to something significant. It was popularised in the early 2010s by Team Sky (now INEOS) back when they used to … Continue reading “How marginal are marginal gains?”

IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships 2025 course preview This year, the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships take place in the Spanish seaside town of Marbella. 2025 is the year of “Carbs before Marbs” and you’re going to need it in order to get round this monstrosity of a bike course – with 20m of climbing per kilometre … Continue reading “The hardest IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships ever?”

Here at myWindsock we care about two things – predicting how the weather will impact your speed on the bike and riding fast time trials. That’s it. Today we have three tips for you that will help you, backed with some myWindsock science, ride a faster TT without simply pedalling harder.  Hold your position  Staying … Continue reading “3 tips for a fast TT”

This Sunday riders will take on the RTTC National 25 mile TT championships on the N1/25C course in Cambridgeshire. The National 25 Mile Time Trial Championship is part of a long-standing tradition in British cycling that dates back to the early 20th century. In 1922, a group of cycling clubs formed the Road Racing Council … Continue reading “National 25 mile TT course preview”

“Feed Remco” signs have been popping up on the roadside – so what is an extra kg or two worth on a Tour de France mountain top finish? In an article in the run up to the Tour de France, Remco Evenepoel gave an interview to a Belgian newspaper in which he said this, “He … Continue reading “Feed Remco”

The GC battle will heat up today in the Tour de France with many permutations on the current state of play possible by the end of the day. Van der Poel is just about in yellow on equal time to Pogacar with Vingegaard 8s back and Evenepoel a further 58 seconds adrift. The course is … Continue reading “Tour de France Stage 5 Preview”

The RTTC National 24 Hour Time Trial championships are a qualifying event for the Race Across America (RAAM). The RAAM is an ultra endurance cycling event which started in the 1980s and for the uninitiated, the route is roughly a line from the west to east coast of America. In relatively recent editions, it has … Continue reading “How to qualify for the Race Across America”