Good enough but not good enough

With demands made by work, toddler, critters and pups training has been limited of late which is not the time to be soft as next week the real man test starts.

Today (yesterday) 1 hour x trainer pushed it sore left knee and acute cramp in calf.

Wednesday 1 run anticlockwise 20 mins 11 seconds not best ever time but good enough, 1 ascent of the North Face Gulley and back 36 mins and that was dawdling, getting lost in the gorse bushes and getting soaked due to dire weather. Sore quads

x2

2x5 mile fast rides.

Meeting held to plan Kington sportive 2014

very sore left knee

Back in action

Finy some training, clockwise ascent of the Bonsai Mountain using lil t as ballast. All data lost due to lil t hiding the monitor.

Slack week

Sunday

8 mile fast ride

Monday

5 mile fast ride
5 mile moderate ride


Tuesday

5 mile fast ride
5mile moderate ride

Wednesday

5 mile fast ride
1 hour spinning peak HR 186
5 mile moderate ride

Thursday

5 mile fast ride
Arrival of 2 litters of puppies meant attention diverted elsewhere

Friday

2 mile bimble around Kington with dogs to advertise Hounds for Hero's W3P2P

Saturday

No training. Dog watching.

Behind again

Tuesday 

Rest day

Wednesday 

42 mile ride 2 hours 24 mins av speed 15.5 mph max speed 39.52 mph cals 4250 (inc spin class) ascent 1916ft lovely sunny day massive row with fat dickhead lorry driver who tried to kill me. Row involved police, him getting the sack and a formal apology offered by Tarmac.

Spin class 1 hour mixed session and insane sprints.

Thursday

1 hour x trainer far too hot to train

weight now 15 stone 8 pound total loss so far 2 stone 1.5 pound of lard

Friday

Rest day

More gels, inner tubes, zero tabs and a helmet camera ordered ready for epic adventure.

Found out today that a friend plans to do Jogle ride in 6 days. That's some ride!

No let up

Recovery ride today, 2x 5 miles, slow, bpm never over 105 max speed 20mph. Very sore backside! Felt good otherwise. Did consider swapping saddle to a comfy cushion.

Kington Sportive

 Man test.
Kington Sportive- an excellent event
totals 82 miles 6 hours 14 mins 56 seconds average speed 13 mph max 41.64 mph ascent 6348 feet, 4579 cals, av hr bpm 126 max hr 179 on an insane climb out of Rhayder

Felt good, 2nd stage felt like puking but overall felt good, fell off in low speed collision, mile 75 felt like feet were on knife blades, drank 6 litres of various liquids, no real pains, left knee fine, arse sore. Glorious sunny day, lots of headwinds.