Your TT excuses

brettjmcc
brettjmcc Posts: 1,361
edited August 2012 in The cake stop
I thought it would be good to start listing all the excuses you trott out after doing a TT...

Mine from last night: "My seat post dropped 2 miles from the end"
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  • dmclite-3.0
    dmclite-3.0 Posts: 845
    brettjmcc wrote:
    I thought it would be good to start listing all the excuses you trott out after doing a TT...

    Mine from last night: "My seat post dropped 2 miles from the end"

    Everyone went faster than me.

    Wrong tyre pressure.

    Ate late.
    I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, but I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast...
  • Grill
    Grill Posts: 5,610
    My last one was "traffic". To be fair I did have to wait for cars to pass at the turn which cost me 20+ seconds. Still set a PB though.
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    I think this could apply to all bike rides ever.

    My personal favourite, "i've not been doing much".
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Best excuse I've heard was someone claiming they hadn't won a TT because they had sneezed! :D
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Not strictly a TT excuse...

    http://inrng.tumblr.com/post/29472905178/itsrainingepo
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  • donkykong
    donkykong Posts: 160
    Mine was about 30 odd years ago, i was riding a 25 on the K16, i was on a ride and a half, on for a sub 55 minute ride at least, flying along, i was certainly in the zone, about 4 miles from the finish, when i entered a section of roadworks, there was a line of standing traffic, and i could see my 7 minute man up ahead, i pressed on a full speed up the outside of the cars, then suddenly from nowhere this young copper stepped out and stood in front of my path and shouted STOP,
    well i didnt, because i never saw him and at 30 + mph you can't just stop. and he never moved either and we met, Ouch ! good job i was wearing one of them foam crash hats. :) his hat fell off ..

    worst part about it was he bent me forks and probably his pride.... funny thing is i never got done for it
    i ended up doing a 1-15

    thats my excuse..
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    I rolled in 20s down off my 10 Mile PB when my pedal snapped at the axle with 800m to go. That was a definite smashing of a PB, no doubt.
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  • solosuperia
    solosuperia Posts: 333
    Oh God I hate Time Trials.....................

    Said with passion and meant it!
  • mikeabanks
    mikeabanks Posts: 116
    I turned up last week to do my first (and probably last) 10 mile TT but it was cancelled because road was blocked by the police due to someone threatening to jump off a brdge.
  • t.m.h.n.e.t
    t.m.h.n.e.t Posts: 2,265
    It's my active recovery day
  • davehmercer
    davehmercer Posts: 82
    This is a really handy thread as I have my 1st attempt at a TT tomorrow evening so I'll have to remember these excuses for when I finish with the slowest time of the night!
    :D
  • t.m.h.n.e.t
    t.m.h.n.e.t Posts: 2,265
    I didn't have time to shave my legs! That'll work well
  • dw300
    dw300 Posts: 1,642
    I'll be peaking in 2 weeks.
    All the above is just advice .. you can do whatever the f*ck you wana do!
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    I'm slow and a bit porky.

    Works for me.
  • AndyRubio
    AndyRubio Posts: 880
    CiB wrote:
    I'm slow and a bit porky.

    Works for me.
    That's my no1 excuse.
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  • markos1963
    markos1963 Posts: 3,724
    I got lost ( on a DCW!)
    Norfolk, who nicked all the hills?

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  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    Not a TT excuse, but I had a sh*te ride the other day, couldn't work out why my new bike felt all wrong. I got home and noticed that my saddle had slipped all the way back (about 1.5") on the rails. It made a suprising difference.
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  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    I could have done better,but, I'm sh1t.
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  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    I would hav done a "22", but had to slacken my braces a bit.
    (Dates from 1979, when I did my PB, 23-08 - fast ain't I!)
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  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    - The wind changed direction at the turn so I had a headwind both ways
    - It was warmer/colder than I thought was so was over/under-dressed and therefore too hot/cold
    - My chain needs cleaning
    - I'm using this as training
    - I've not done much/being doing too much recently
    - I was trying out a different position
    - I was trying out new bars/saddle/wheels/tyres/socks
    - I have lost my heart rate monitor and have no idea how to pace myself without it
    - I was pacing myself for a much longer race only to be surprised by the chequered board making an early appearance
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    The fact that the Marshall wasn't stood on the cone at the dead turn cost me two minutes. I was flying...
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  • jrduquemin
    jrduquemin Posts: 791
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    I rolled in 20s down off my 10 Mile PB when my pedal snapped at the axle with 800m to go. That was a definite smashing of a PB, no doubt.

    Ouch, my PBs!!! :-)
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  • HungryCol
    HungryCol Posts: 532
    Had preplanned to keep to an average speed which, by calculations, would give me a certain time that I thought I'd be happy with. I stuck to the plan and achieved my target time only to realise that I was too fresh at the end and should have increased my avergae speed from the outset. A little fustrating.
    Every winner has scars.
  • nickellis
    nickellis Posts: 239
    I had to swerve to avoid a pheasant....

    The road surface was cr@p....

    I forgot my optimul oxygen increasing nasal strip, therefore my blood oxygen level was all wrong, compromising my stamina levels....

    I thought this was a 25 mile TT, I was just getting into my groove....
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    A bee stung me in the crotch with 5km to go.

    This actually happened to me last night and I PB'd by about 25s. I've discovered the future of doping.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    A bee stung me in the crotch with 5km to go.

    This actually happened to me last night and I PB'd by about 25s. I've discovered the future of doping.

    Chris Froome in BeeHive B0llocks scandal...
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  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    Grill wrote:
    My last one was "traffic". To be fair I did have to wait for cars to pass at the turn which cost me 20+ seconds. Still set a PB though.
    +1... get that traffic off the road. :D
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    T.M.H.N.E.T wrote:
    I didn't have time to shave my legs! That'll work well

    :lol::lol::lol:
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    The fact that the Marshall wasn't stood on the cone at the dead turn cost me two minutes. I was flying...

    I think I know him :D

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