Had a great day today: went out with my trainer Rob and we did 35 miles in the countryside, climbing 1,600 feet and averaging 11.7mph which is the kind of speed we need to be doing. And it was quite "in your face" windy too. So I'm well happy !!!! Feet didn't hurt, arms, neck shoulders were all fine.
Rob is a first class trainer who is pushing me on very nicely. Recommended to me by my friend Jez Church who I did Kilimanjaro with, Rob is one of those rare people you meet from time to time who just have "got it". For example in July 2010 Rob raised over £4,000 doing an iron man with a fridge on his back. I kid you not. As the picture opposite shows.......he cycled (pulling) and ran (on his back) with an entire fridge. Awesome. By the way Rob has invited any of the group to join in our training rides free of charge if anyone wants to. They are awesome I promise!
So I've cracked it yeah? Er well no. Actually not at all. Because oh my god did my bum start to ache after 20 miles. And I mean on bloody fire !!! The last 5 miles were so sore I had to pretty much stand up. So bit by bit we are getting there with the "contact points." But there's still one still to go. What was interesting though was that it was fine for the first bit. So I suppose there's a lesson there, at least as far as I'm concerned anyway: test your kit at least once over a longer distance.
The biggest plus for me today though was that I am really starting to feel the benefit of "base miles" kicking in now. I didn't tire as much as I did a couple of weeks ago and generally it was all a little better. As George said to me last week: it's all about loads and loads of base miles old boy! And blimey is he right.
Anyway, three days off now. No exercise, no bikes, just long hot baths. Lovely !
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