Rain, Wind & Mud

So the weather seems to of timed itself pretty well this week as lets be honest its been pretty terrible! I'm currently on a a recovery week which me and my legs are happy about because last week finished quite an intensive block of high mileage and efforts with a great deal of turbo work! It's now Wednesday and i'm due my first outing of the week on the road. Nothing overly stressful on my legs in terms of mileage but with 15 telecoms involved it still had some pretty high intensity intervals! I came home soaked and ridiculously muddy my white oversocks had turned grey and my legs were soaked due to going through a deep puddle despite of un-clipping and lifting them up. It was pretty windy in the more exposed parts of the route i went on today and windy in general at the best of times but it's all good... not long till i'm in Spain on some good dry roads.

New Season, New Look

So the season is getting close now and as well as changing the bike i wanted a slight change of image, so I opted to get myself some Oakley Jawbones. They came this morning and I think that they look really nice and they have such a comfy fit which is good! I'm currently saving money to take out to Spain but after the training camp I'm looking to get some money for new shoes!

9 Hours

So this weekend resulted in me riding a total of 9 hours... It was pretty hard with a good ride on the Saturday out to box hill then back again into London before returning home which was 5 hours dead funnily enough. Sunday was a team ride with loads of banter... Quote of The Day was ''I just broke my cleat...Thats what she said'' you probably had to be there. Also the new phrase L.A.D Positive was created my Tizzle Hizzle also known as Laker man also known as Tom Laker. The ride was just a fraction short of four hours with us being joined 2 and a half hours in by Josh, Doug and Tom Copeland who are all strong riders and with pretty knackered legs already having Tom (Sigma Sport) smashing it up the climbs, well it felt like smashing it at the time but for him was probably taking it easy but as a full time pro it was good for him to come out with us, it was also good to catch up with josh because I haven't seen him in person for quite a while. Comoros I plan to sleep and eat a lot and then a half hour or so spin on the roller...

Thats about it? As The Irish Legend Felix English would say, Ciao ;)

The Weekend

So the first proper weekend of 2011 for training and it should be pretty hard, with a good 85 - 90 miles tomorrow morning with Lawrence Carpenter (Rapha Condor). Sunday we have yet again another squad ride which i'm looking forward to a lot because its another chance for everyone to be together ,and its great getting to know the new riders more. So it's another 4 hours on the menu for Sunday!

Weathers Killing Me Again

So the weather has once again got me onto the turbo for a 2 hour session. With it pouring down with rain and some sleet around its only sensible to stay in the garage to avoid being ill, which would be so bad at this time of the year as it would kill at least a week of training! The session i did was really hard with a 20 minute effort and Telekom 40's 15 of them. A proper burn out but after 2 hours I was dead!!! I cant wait to get to Spain, not long now though.

Wednesday

So Wednesdays actions resulted in a early turbo session. well i had to get up at 5:45 which by my standards and with my current sleeping pattern was horrible. It was telekom forties 40 seconds on 20 seconds off and 15 of them which killed me. After school i headed down to the gym for 2 hours or so to work on some last minute core and upper body strength before going to Spain in a few weeks and before the racing starts!

New Year

Okay just bringing to attention that I have my first race with the Team at Hillingdon in 25 days time! this is quite a scary thought when i come to think of it. Ive still got a good 3 weeks of training before this though which is quality and during the three weeks there is another team training ride and a team session at Newport which will be good for all the lads to train together to see where we are plus its fun and will be a hard session. Also before then i will be putting my bike together which is going to be really good and should get me a few placings over. Until then the training is more on my mind before i jet off to Spain to ride the climbs in some heat hopefully for a week with Drew Holmes which i'm looking forward to and having my coach on hand for a whole week will really help too. Also it's back to sixth form tomorrow but before that happens i have a morning turbo session before a full set of lessons followed by a savage gym session!