Hi Adam,
I can do my own ramp test as I have a powermeter and a program on a laptop to tell me when to up the wattage although it's easier to do this with someone else shouting out to you than trying to kill yourself and look at a screen.
Here's some links :-
http://www.jbst.com/ramptest.html
http://www.cyclecoach.com/pageID-training.htm (this is the guy I bought myPowertap from).
http://www.cyclecoach.com/pageID-articl ... elines.htm
What have I achieved? Nothing as at the age of 19 I stopped cycling after 3 years and only just started to race, had the pleasure of racing with Roger Hammond in a surrey league handicap race back in 1991 finishing 7th behind Roger I think if i recall.
As a junior I rode one 10 mile time trial on a standard road bike with no aero equipment and got a time of just over 24mins.
The other time trial I did was a 25mile 2 up which me and my mate won the junior prize.
My first Junior road race I sacriificed finishing high up by waiting for a team mate who had blown to drag him up back to the bunch but the cheeky git sprinted past me up the hill where the finish line was.
The reason I gave up was because of illness as I suffered with chronic heartburn which was aggravated worse on the bike and appeared the first time during a Goodwood race. Took up football instead as it was less painful for my heartburn as i'm not bent over like on a bike then a few years later I also got IBS (stomach pains) which I still have.
In 2001 I decided to return to cycling but not race as my heartburn and stomach cramps really screws with my head up as the pain is real bad some days and as usual it's worse whilst riding, I do have good and bad days.
Also in 2001 was the first time I came into contact with ACC and use to ride with the 19mph group as the other 2 groups was just the 17's & 15's back then.
In 2002 I purchased the powertap hub best purchase ever have never looked back.
Now at the grand old age of 34 I ride my bike 3 times a week on my own and usually average during the summer 19-20mph on my weekend endurance rides (70ish miles). During the week I do LT inervals with my powertap and spend lots of time reading about the use of powermeters and training techniques.
The last ride I did with ACC was in May 2005 when I went out on one of Paul Tunnell's long rides to Worthing.
Think that covers it...
Rob