Bang Bang the mighty fall

Managed a 200mtr sprint on bike, despite manflu, but thorny problem brought speed freakery to abrupt end as back wheel exploded. Plan for 20 mile road race session tomorrow has a major drawback. No wheels.

The long way home

Beautiful and oh so patient wife helped with training today leaving me at Red Kite office with MTB. But as I had desert combat boots, jeans and rugby shirt, no helmet, made cycling a non starter so I walked back over the bonsai mountain. 1hour 15. It rained. I have a cold.

Rapid progress

Top day

2 x 5 mile rides on badly set up R200 sub 20 mins for both

2000mtr row on concept 2 7mins57seconds

Nearly overtook tractor on bike :) he turned off to get away

Its a long way to the top

Took the long clockwise spiral to the top of the Bonsai Mountain tonight, not timed as wearing wellies restricted traction control. Av bpm 100 max 152 bpm.

The world expects a man to .....

No training other than shifting a ton of pig pooh.

Getting nowhere fast

The gizmo is doing a grand job prompting more effort so this evening

45 mins lvl 12 manual 25.7km av 144bpm max 160bpm

Sore left knee

felt odd at the 35 to 38 min mark but picked up the pace again, finished the 25 km at 42 mins so could have got more but used last of the time to cool down. Will need to maintain that pace for 10 hours a day. Easy life :)

Sprint finish

Put R200 back together after catastrophic blow out of Friday, whole valve had ripped from tube so no wonder it deflated. Fitted new slime tube and put 85psi in. Tube cost a fortune from local bike shed, £9 when I got the last one £4.50 including delivery from ebay. Bike still not set up properly, the saddle is so low a dwarf would find it difficult to straighten his legs on the down stroke. This is the cause of my sore left knee.

Stats.

End of drive to office door 4 miles, 13 mins 40 seconds. 138 av bpm 158 highest.

Return trip 17 mins 20 seconds 128 av bpm and 144 highest.

Note. Sat at computer av heart rate 48 bpm. May have been early onset hypothermia due to freezing cold from torrential rain of inbound journey. That or my heart is mega lazy.