The Season Begins Tomorrow!

Well I know the last few posts have been on stuff that has came for me but I thought i'd put one out seeing as my frame has finally came and i'm pretty excited. It's getting built up next week and hopefully i will be able to use it for SERRL 's Frant race next weekend. This weekend will be the last time i race on my Specialized hopefully before giving it to my brother to use for the season. I'm Racing in the Elite race at Hog Hill on Saturday and we're scheduled for 30 laps. I've never done a race that long there so this should be interesting. It's also the last squad training day of the winter on Sunday. Ill write my reports of the weekends events on Monday.

Bits and Pieces

So on my return from Spain it appeared that it was Christmas again in my room with 5 boxes of cycling goodies. As there has been some confusion with the frame supplier I have opted for the non aero frameset which is supposedly stiffer and it is lighter. But with these changes it has had a knock-on effect with everything else nearly. The frame I was originally getting uses a BB30 bottom bracket whereas the non aero model uses a normal bottom bracket (English Threaded). So i have sent back the bearings and Chain set to be changed so that won’t take too long however I will have to wait a few weeks for the frame to be made and then shipped over to me before being built up.

Back for a while

I have been back from sunny Spain for a little over one day and i must say the weather over here is pretty depressing! It was a really good week and i feel that it will benefit me hugely. The climbing we did out there was off the scale and could never be replicated around my usual training grounds. Some of the routes we did were fantastic I’ve included some of the profiles of routes we did in this post. Sorry I couldn’t get my scanner working so the photos aren’t fantastic but you can work out the severity of some of the climbs! The following few days I will be feeling pretty tired and this week will be a reduced training week with a gym session and Saturday The whole team (apart from Tom Moore who has recently crashed and broken his collar bone sadly) will be heading down to Hog Hill to race. We also have our last winter squad training session on Sunday so 4 hours will be on the menu. The season is basically here now so this last big push beforehand will benefit me massively! I also returned home on Saturday to several boxes of Equipment for my 2011 season all that I need to wait for now is the frame which is still going to be 2-3 weeks but it will be ready for the first national series of the year which is Cadence.

España So far

Well myself and Drew have been here for a few days now. So far the weather has been pretty nice until today where it rained, we only had a recovery spin for a couple of hours on the flats so it wasn’t too much of an inconvenience. Saturdays ride was about 30 miles or so after we´d thrown our stuff into the rooms. Sunday was a very hilly 125K route including a 25K climb thrown in. Most of the riding about here is up climbs as we are surrounded by mountains. Monday was less with only 95K´s of riding but there was a cheeky cat 2 Vuelta climb thrown in there which was very tough. The weather for the remainder of the week seems to be looking good so we will continue to pound in the miles up all the climbs and top the tan up even more!

Flippers

Haven't really had anything to blog for a few days so I thought i'd post my new shoes i'm going to be using for the 2011 season. These just arrived at my door, they're really comfortable. My last pair of shoes were the S-Works road shoes and they lasted me a long time... lets hope these last just as long. Spain is getting ever closer, 9 days in fact and yesterday it was 18 degrees in the shade at 5PM which compared to the conditions I have been used to training in over the winter it's going to be tropical...

Adios