I'm looking to get a few PBs this year, and a set of Zipp 808 wheels would be handy to help me do that. Does anyone want to bung me some money to buy them?
If your PBs were going to be national records, and you could provide some evidence that you've got a reasonable chance then some may consider donating.
So if you're going for the 10 mile TT record (17:20 by Dowsett isn't it?) show me your results where you've done, I dunno, sub 18:20 and I'd consider donating.
Money probably best spent on something like Aerocoach and getting CdA down before swanky wheels though.
Well yes, that's the point: it's the difference between a record attempt and a PB. I sponsored Steve right at the start, before the regular giving scheme was even set up, when I thought he had a serious chance at the record, but now that's vanishingly unlikely to happen and he's just going for a PB. Well that makes two of us, him and me, and I don't see his non-record-breaking quest for a 1 year PB as any more worthy a target than my quest for a(
nother) 4 hour 100, so I shan't be funding it.
To be honest, I really wish everyone would stop funding him as that might make him take a colder, more rational assessment of his chances than the current situation, where he's got a comfortable financial cushion of ongoing donations to a record attempt that isn't a record attempt anymore.