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The web wizards at official time trial ranking website Spindata have been busy over the winter, and Cycling Time Trials is pleased to announce that they have launched several new features to help riders get even more from their sport!

Used by thousands of riders to plan and track their season’s progress, Spindata helps categorise progress and improvement for everyone, no matter what level you are cycling at.

The Spindata website now has a new page listing time trial courses, with filters allowing users to filter the list by district and/or distance, and to include or hide unofficial courses (those are where official courses were shortened due to roadworks for example).

The list can also be sorted by course code, distance, or most interestingly a weighted mph - which is the average speed of the course on an average day for a rider scoring 2000 points (500 for hill climb).

This should make it easy for riders to find the fastest courses at their chosen distance and district - or indeed the hardest courses.

There is also now a new page for each course, showing which were the fastest and most recent events on the course. Course records (for both men and women) are shown, along with the points those rides scored, so users can judge how good a record it is and whether they might have a chance of breaking the record by comparing it to their own ranking score.

The page also lists all rides on that course which you can filter by gender, age category, district, club, or any combination of those.

This means that riders can see how they compare against others in their age category on any course, or indeed compare themselves with their team mates.

The course page now shows the weighted mph, and for standard distance courses the rank of the course in terms of weighted mph compared to other courses of the same length. For most hill climbs we also have a link on the course page to the Strava segment.

The Events section has also seen some exciting changes, with a new measure - which we've called "float" - which indicates how fast a day it was for the event compared to other events held on the same course.

The measure is zero for an average day, positive for a slower day and negative for a faster day, where the values show the percentage difference that the event times were compared to an average day.

So a float of -3 would represent a day where times are 97% of what they would have been on an average day. And -3 or below is a fast day! Conversely, a positive float can be used by riders as an excuse for a slow time.

The events list can be sorted by float value to show which events were the fastest.

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