Sentence examples for long time trial from inspiring English sources

I treated each climb like a long time trial because I'm not a pure climber.

"I'll probably lose five minutes in the first long time trial," he said.

Second, he said, is the long time trial on the day before the Tour ends in Paris on July 28.

Last year, Armstrong won a long time trial and the first stage in the Alps back to back.

The three-week Tour is half over, but the Pyrenees and another long time trial are ahead.

It's the same in a long time trial; I always try to build up and up and up".

"Last year's course was almost perfect for me: not a lot of climbing relatively, two long time trials -- good time trials for me, in Metz, rolling hills, perfect," Armstrong said.

Winning the first mountain stage of the Tour is as much an Armstrong staple as taking the long time trials, and he did this in 1999 at Sestriere in the Alps, and last year at l'Alpe d'Huez.

Armstrong, who has won the five long time trials in his three consecutive Tour triumphs beginning in 1999, was 11 seconds slower than Botero as he finished second among the 182 riders.

A Tour with two long time trials and relatively few extreme mountain stages was always going to favour Wiggins but having said that he did not lose a second to any of his rivals in the mountains, apart from his team-mate Froome, so he may well have won on an even tougher course.

But nobody had ever triumphed in these three races on the bounce before, and underpinning all of them was his form against the clock in long time trials.