Training Schedule Part 1
I've never really stuck to a training regieme and that may explain a lot! So here goes. The weekend of May 14/15th is either going to be a Coast to Coast ride or some other endurance quick ride.
Piddinghoe - you would stop for a gander, wouldn't you?
I've not been riding much of late, watching and feeling muscle & grey matter turn to sludge. But this weekend, I got enthused again. A shake down of the garage and bikes are back on the radar, firmly. Just sizes are wrong. Simple and pleasurable processes are planned to correct this oversight, with a new cyclo cross bike coming in 54cm, not the 58cm I have now ... how many times, cheap doesn't make it the right size ... and a hand wringingly exciting prospect of upgrading myself to a KM810. Anyway, more on that later.
So training. Hrm. I think that I rode around 50 road miles at level 2 intensity.
Weight: 12 stone (urg)
Flexibility: Not bad. Back aches a bit
Heid: Fuzzy.
Sussex is the most undulating county in the South of England, did you know that? So today, I took my road bike out, straight up and over the hill to drop down and climb the lung bursting Peakock Lane. Nice wakener, heart thumpingly appreciated. Left at the top and along to treat myself to the Ditchling Beacon cheats way; daring myself to lay off the brakes and trust in hope that the loose shale isn't so bad on the riding line.
A tempo formed and clicking along, left before Plumpton and then just weaved right and left, this way and that, North Chailey and then south. I've never stopped in Piddinghoe, but always guffawed at the name. Giggleswick. Now that is a place I'd like to live. Continuing down, Newhaven was sleepy and actually quite attractive. Battering along the coast, then weaving throught the masses and back home.
Weight: Same, I guess.
Flexibility: Left knee is louping, but that is a good sign
Heid: Clear and planning.
