This is a liitle guide on what to do

1. I am sure that a lot of people have thought about doing one but don't know how, where or why?
2. TT are regulated races on the great British roads and contrary to what a lot of people think it is not all about wearing a cone on your head whilst dodging HGVs on the A1
3. I did my first TT in 2006. I had to join to a club, the Yorkshire Road Club, there was a reason behind this choice for me but there are clubs all over the place and are all very friendly.
4. It is a fantastic form of high end training don't think just because you are racing long distance tri that you don't need to do this top end stuff (I have done 10 IM, numerous long course and half IM races) it has helped my cycling no end 
5.  Depending on where you live or how far you are prepared to travel there are races on most days of the week during the summer. I take part in the local Tadacster league on a Thursday evening which involves 5 clubs. There is the Pool Triangle on a Wed evening 12.5miles of hilly pain, York based clubs do there own series as well as Harrogate area if you live outside these areas then there will be one near you.
6. Most of the inter-clubs league cost  £1 to enter on the line, open events have to be entered prior to the event. The most I have paid to race is £9 and that was for the 25mile National Championships.
7. The courses range from pancake flat dual carriageway to sporting courses (hilly) I know that the York and Harrogate evening leagues are done on quiet back roads on sporting courses.
8. The range of ability in these things are vast don't think you will turn up and be last I would put money on that you won't be and you may surprise yourself.
9. You can wear your tri kit but it must have sleeves underneath!!!! One of the strange rules but on the evening races anything goes really.
10. The tt will give you a real insight into pacing be it a 10mile, 25mile or more and this is something I am still trying to learn it doesn't seem to matter what the distance is I still accelerate as hard as I can and attempt to hold it, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. 
11. Think about how many times you race tri in a year, once (IM), 5-10 times if you are lucky. In my opinion this will not make you race fit. If you can race against the clock once or twice a week for training, how much easier will the tri be, as the bike section will be no where as intense and it is an excellent way to get rid of race nerves.
12. A few of the club members do TT or have done in the past and have done quite well at various distances, Craig, Tim and I all race TT.
13. TT usually start in Feb and go through to Oct when the hill climbs start so why not try and get your season off with a bang instead of waiting till June you might actually enjoy it.
14. Apologies if it is a bit rambling but if you need any more info give me a shout. Now where did I put that turbo trainer!!!!! 

         Ratty  

Hi, for the Harrogate area see:  http://www.harrogatenova.com/  KRT cycle club has disbanded, however their web site will keep going see: http://www.krt.org.uk/  last yrs lge results can be found there. I dithered over going thinking that everyone there would be Lance Armstrong types, there are a few but most are just normal humans, honestly. Tim 

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