Busy Busy Busy

Okay so it’s been a good few days since i have wrote anything on here but I was saving a post to be as epic as the likes of Tom Lakerman’s and Brocks... hopefully it will be! The team and I have had a busy few days with a hectic Newport session on Saturday night which was a three hour leg mashing session. As there were no more than 15 of us on the track the session had no time wasted as we was on the track for 90% of the three hours. The session was taken by Scott again who is a top track coach and gave us all a quality work-out. During the session we had a good half hour warm up which then followed by some standing starts. Then we went on to doing some individual efforts up at the top of the track (where it’s dusty and all of the spiders and cobwebs are according to Drew) which was hard as the bunch was controlling your speed and I was lucky enough to have Brock beneath me on one occasion and he managed to give me a cheeky smile before ripping my legs to bits. After a quick 10 minutes rest which gave us enough time for a ‘wicked yes’. The team then got back onto the track for the final efforts with a lower group on the black and the higher group on the blue at high speed. Obviously in Progressive Cycle Coaching Development Squad Style everything we did turned out to be a race. So every time Scott gave us 10 to go it was game on. I felt pretty strong and I feel that the juniors came out on top over the under 23’s with Brock and Myself managing to shred it in the last 10 laps or so! We still have another session yet which has been promised to be even harder still so I’m looking forward to that a lot. Another thing some of the team will be looking forward to is racing on the track this year as one of the targets will be the track nationals for the juniors! I’m now going into another block of training after my recovery week so that will be hard. There are a few key dates coming up in this block. We have the first race as a team of the season coming up on the 29^th January at Hillingdon which should be a good one providing everyone rides as well as they did at the track! We also have a Cycling Weekly photo shoot for their ‘ride of the week’ section in the magazine on the 20^th January. That should be pretty fun although we are doing our ride on the hardest circuit we use! And then looking further ahead I’m off to Spain on a training camp on February 12^th. There’s also another Newport Session which is to be confirmed so it’s a busy few weeks with plenty of hard hours on the bike!