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There’s a description of time trials from Victor Hugo Peña, the time-trial specialist who in 2003 became the first Colombian to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour, in Matt Rendell’s fascinating book A Significant Other that has always stuck with me:
Time trials are about maintaining a constant pace, like a continuous hum. But they are also about pain, an agonising heat you feel in the stomach, a burning that affects your breathing. You get into a rhythm, and when the pain comes, you tunnel into it, exploring it to the bitter end … From top to bottom, front to back, I gather it into a smooth ball of pain that spins around in my mind until the time trial is over.
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