Alex Dowsett had time to digest Wednesday's UCI Hour Record attempt, but looking back calmly, he has no regrets about his ride.

"I'm confident I gave it my all and that was the important thing," the British rider said in his latest video diary on his popular YouTube channel. [54.555 km is the third largest distance in the modern history of the Hour Record, and I don't think it's anything to be ashamed of."

Dowsett's distance at Mexico's Aguascalientes Stadium was 534 meters (just over two laps) short of the current record set by Victor Campenaerts at the same location two and a half years ago, surpassing Bradley Wiggins, who took the record in 2015, but Dan Bigum recently established British record was not reached.

Dowsett suggested that he could have gone a little further had he started more conservatively, but feeling he had not done himself enough justice when he broke the record in 2015, he was keen to attack the Campenaerts benchmark head on.

Analyzing his run with coach Michael Hutchinson, Dowsett explained that he started strong and caught up to Kampenaerts' pace at the halfway point, but soon began to fade and felt the record slipping away from his grasp.

"My initial goal was to run well for the first 5-10 minutes, not get too excited and let the pace settle. After that, it was a little rough for about 15-20 minutes, but then it calmed down again, and at about 30 minutes, I thought, "I can do it, I can control it," Dowsett explained. [But at 35 minutes, I started to lose control. My lap times were dropping off and off, and I was five seconds off, and I thought, "Okay, I've got a five-second buffer, so I'm going to lose it, regroup, and get back on it."

In the last 20 minutes, Dowsett's lap time hit the 17-second mark and he was unable to pull his lap time down to the 16.3-second mark needed to break Campenaerts' record. His efforts were not rewarded, however, as his line became increasingly erratic, and at one point he hit one of the foam pads on the side of the track.

When the clock stopped and he came to a wheel stop, he could barely walk and had to ask his partner and coach to come down to the track center.

"My legs hurt so bad. I've never had pain like this before," Dowsett said 24 hours later.

"I told Michael it hurt when I sat down, it hurt when I stood up, it hurt when I laid down. I told Michael, 'It hurts when I sit, it hurts when I stand, it hurts when I lie down. So we did the right thing."

Dowsett was aiming for the personal honor of holding the world record, but he was also running for a cause far greater than himself. The attempt, which was organized separately from his trade team, Israel Startup Nation, was designed to raise awareness and funds for hemophilia, a rare blood disorder that Dowsett suffers from.

At the time of writing, his fundraising page linked to the record achievement had raised £45,000, which will be split between the Hemophilia Association and Dowsett's own charity, Little Bleeders.

"The response since then has been quite overwhelming," Dowsett said. 'The JustGiving page is now over £40,000. It's truly phenomenal."

"We're happy with the results," Dowsett concluded. 'I didn't get the world record, but I'm walking away with the satisfaction of having achieved the world record and showing the Hour Record what I can do. It feels good."