Technically a one year event can't be a time trial, it's a Road Ride. The 100,000 miles would be a time trial. A 'Record' is defined by how an event is recorded. The official 10 mile TT record may well have been 'beaten' in club events on a 'float night', but the record will be a CTT open event.
I'm not enthused by the mixing of upright and recumbent, but those are the rules.
What interests me most is the meeting of two cultures in supporting the riders. One culture is that of sporting success, they've seen British Cycling pick up medal after medal, Wiggo and Froome win the Tour, and they like scent of victory. Which is fine, that's what sport is about.
For dyed-in-the-wool cyclists it's a bit different. For me, the two high-points of recent years were Wiggo's joke about the raffle on the Tour podium, and the handshake at the end of the Olympic TT with Tony Martin and he and Wiggo sat on the tarmac, leaning on the crowd barriers, recovering.
The film that best illustrates this point is of the 2008 Mersey Roads 24. Steve is in it of course, and lots of members of this forum. I'm in it, handing up sponges, and Kurt's RAAM partner, Joel Sothern, features at the end.
The music will irritate Matt C, who puts in a fleeting appearance, over-dressed as usual. Heather and I also put in a stint marshalling at Espley roundabout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_CLt7JjqP0We go to the Mersey to help make it happen, not to be partial. We're part of a community which exists to provide a stage for people to explore what they can do under defined conditions. Some take it more seriously than others, some have a more appealing approach, and that's as interesting as the result. Extreme efforts reveal a lot about underlying character, but everyone gets the same chance.