+1....a couple of years ago i trained really hard fot the TT season and couldn'get below 23 minutes noatter what i did...and when i say 'really hard' i really do mean it!!
How the top guys ride is beyond comprehension!
When you look at E2/10 there isn't much there to slow you down. I've not ridden it but I believe that it is one of those courses that gets faster the more truck traffic that is on it giving a useful tow to riders
That's a very big improvement over Hutchinson's record.
Top time trialists ride so smoothly that the enormous effort involved is not apparent at least on the telly.
I recall reading about someone who fell in with a European pro team out on the road. For a while he was keeping up with them and thinking how well he was doing, then they hit their training speed and he was blown away immediately.