Weekend of Pain?

So another weekend has come and gone now, and a hard one was yet again on the schedule with 9 hours of riding with some sweet spots. The ride time for Saturday was supposed to be 4 hours and Sunday with 5 hours. Instead the Saturday’s ride turned out to be 6 hours long and just over 100 very hilly miles! Fortunately I was not alone during the whole process starting my ride into surrey with Tanveer Mann and Lawrence Carpenter before meeting Tom Laker and Dante Carpenter in the cafe at the foot of Box Hill where myself, Tanveer and Lawrence enjoyed a quick break after riding two hours to meet the boys. Once the coffee had been chugged down the 5 of us set of into surrey with Dante taking us on a nice loop and it was tremendously hilly. With me having next to no knowledge of surreys roads apart from the route to Box it was nice to be on different roads and with a good sized bunch of people for a good speed. In true style sprinting for every place sign it was definitely challenging on the legs. After about an hour and three quarters with Lakerman and Dazza they left us at the bottom of White-down and me and Lawrence managed to get up it fine but by this time Tanveer ‘s legs were fatigued. Once we hit the top I got home in about 2 hours taking me up to 6 hours of riding and a quality training session with some good lads. Sunday came and this meant I only had to do 3 hours but other people weren’t about so I did it on my own in Richmond Park. It takes me about an hour to get there and then an hour home so I fit in 3 laps and surprisingly my legs didn’t feel too bad until about 10k from my house!