The Art of the Time Trial

BeSpoke: at the Tour de France

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4.5 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Bent double, legs aching, lungs burning, knees knocking into your ribcage as you race against the clock: the Time Trial is cycling in its purest form. But what does it feel like to ride a professional TT and what's the science behind it? In 2015 Alex Dowsett broke track cycling's world hour record by 446 metres. He and Michael Hutchinson - who held the competition record for 10, 25, 30, 50 and 100 miles - join BeSpoke to reveal the finer details and find out why it's better to have hairy legs.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.1	This is Bespoke.
0:07.1	The BBC Cycling Podcast with Tom Fordyce.
0:11.2	It is one of the most dramatic moments in cycling.
0:14.7	One rider against the clock, no teammates, just them and the road.
0:19.0	It is the time trial.
0:19.9	In this episode of Bespoke, we are going
0:21.7	to dig down the secret art of time trialing, how you do it, why it's so hard, where it hurts.
0:27.4	We've got a special panel to talk us through it all. First of all, Michael Hutchinson. Michael,
0:32.3	how many times have you been national time trial champion, please?
0:36.5	About 57.
0:39.3	Okay.
0:39.8	Depends a little bit how you count them.
0:41.1	Right. So you're in.
0:42.0	What makes time trialing so special, Hutch?
0:44.7	It's the purest discipline of cycling.
0:47.3	I think it's the hardest discipline in cycling.
0:49.4	And it's the discipline where there's nowhere to hide.
0:53.1	Rob Hales, you've told me yourself that you have a very powerful back end.
0:57.2	That made you a very good time trialist.
0:59.1	Why did you love it so much?
1:00.7	For me, it's pure.
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