This week
has been difficult training wise; I did my 45 miler on Monday, then my version
of cross training on Tuesday, 2 hours dancing. Dancing is my other passion, I’ve
been doing it since I was 4 and, every time I say I’m hanging up my jazz boots
it takes very little persuasion to stick them back on again. At the minute as
well as training for wales I am rehearsing for my 1st proper dance show in
probably 18 years, and I’m going full whack as it’s a burlesque style, not
wearing much other than heels kind of dance..... Diet starts tomorrow
(again!)
Wednesday
was a nice 25 mile tootle with the group, who didn’t rip me too much about my
no show on Sunday (even though I was expecting it!) we rode to Bosworth water
park and back again- the only issue with these rides now is that the nights are
drawing in so, we are either going to have to try to meet earlier or knock them
on the head- which means........ The dreaded turbo will have to come out for
evening ride urgh!
I’ve
noticed that there is a marked difference in how I ride depending on the time
of day and, what I’ve done during that day. I find that if I ride 1st thing in
the morning, after a nice bowl of porridge and a cup of coffee I find my stride
quickly and feel like I could ride forever. When I go out after work, particularly
if I’ve not drunk much in the day it feels like I am going to run out of steam
at the end of the road and, the hill leading away from town feels like Mount Everest.
I am definitely a morning rider; I’m just surprised how much of a difference it
makes. Lucky for me Stonehenge ride is all early starts!
the end
of the week wasn’t so good as far a training goes, Friday was my eldest
daughters Jasmines 12th birthday, but as I was at work and she spent the day
with her dad we celebrated Saturday with a day’s shopping, lunch in MacDonald’s
and then off to a family BBQ at Andy’s cousins in Worcester. Which meant a 50
mile journey home at 11pm when I don’t particularly like driving on the
motorway (Andy would say I am a nervous driver, not least when I missed the
junction exit and had to then come back through the lanes, in the dark
shrieking like a banshee when a rabbit decided to play chicken???) It was a
lovely day, it’s nice to get to know Andy’s family but we were exhausted. Which
meant when the alarm went off this morning there was no way we were going out.
I don’t think we even discussed it, BEEP BEEP BEEP, Zoe turns it off, rolls
over and snores!
We then
took the kids out for dinner (double bacon burger and chips followed by crumble
and custard, I told you the diet starts tomorrow) and family visited this
afternoon, my youngest sister had made a cake, vanilla sponge topped with
M&M's and encircled with Kit-Kats mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
There was
a temptation not to bother to ride today, it was gone 5pm when everybody left
and Andy was convinced it was too late. But with some gentle persuasion we
decided on a 20 mile and, to do the Meriden run together (The reminder that he
has a new techy toy in his Garmin to play with helped persuade him, Andy is a
geek who loves his techno toys)
It was a
nice ride, bit windy and the hills seemed harder than on Monday but we did it
in 1 hour 20 minutes and climbed 1234ft over the distance so nice work out (not
sure what that means to be honest, all I know is its lumpy in place!) I am sure
the fact it was evening (and I had double burger and chips weighing me down!)
made it harder. The Garmin didn’t play nicely to start with, apparently Andy
hit a top speed of 69 miles per hour (he is quick but not THAT fast) but after
a quick tweak in Meriden all was right with the world and, he is now happily
sat staring a pretty graphs, charts and stats, like a kid in a candy store!
Now have
an evening of chilling before work starts again, my plan next week is ride Monday,
dance Tuesday, ride Wednesday and Thursday, rest Friday and ride the weekend. The
only issue with this is that suddenly my saddle is uncomfy, of course 2 weeks
before my big ride is the perfect time for it to start to hurt! Will see if it
improves next week, if not I may have to purchase a last minute gel
saddle.
Thanks
for reading, any tips are welcome! (If anybody can tell me how to post my map
my ride stats that would be ace!)
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