With Bradley Wiggins' UCI Hour Record attempt just a few days away we analyse the attempt of reigning Hour Record holder, Alex Dowsett, with this feature from the June issue of Procycling magazine.
In the story Procycling uncovers the incredible amount of work that went into Alex Dowsett's successful Hour Record attempt.
Control. That's what the Hour Record is all about. Not pain, power, aerodynamics or turning left - though each of those is intrinsic to it. Control is everything, and it begins many months before the crowd starts cheering.
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For a road pro, the Hour Record is a unique opportunity to control a great number of variables that would normally require a best guess. The track is perfectly flat, there is no wind, there are no interruptions, you can choose the temperature and therefore the air density.
By comparison, a time trial looks like a rolling demonstration of chaos theory.
What's more, you can choose the date and the venue and train and taper for the Hour Record more specifically than any road event. You can be perfectly prepared, and to a team such as Alex Dowsett's Movistar, one of the first to follow Team Sky's lead by embracing technology and a `marginal gains' type approach, that's manna from heaven.
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