When I scheduled this C2C bike ride in June I imagined the weather would be quite pleasant and training would be long rides in summer sun, with the odd cool wind refreshing my heated body. WRONG.
The weather is currently akin to November, which is making training particularly difficult. I don't like ride a bike in the wind and rain.
Yesterday was not much better, but at least I was able to get out and put in an 18 miler at an average speed of 9.86mph. I don't expect this to be my average speed during the ride, but if it's about 7mph I'll be happy.
I'm counting today as a 'rest' day, even though there will be no rest days when doing the ride; hard to have rest day when it's only taking three days!
So tomorrow the weather is supposed to improve and I've planned a 25 mile ride, which is roughly half the daily distance we need to travel on days one and three.
Day two will be less distance but is mainly uphill, therefore an average speed of 5mph will be fine by me.
I tend to struggle for the first few miles, but after that I'm quite happy to ride with an extra 'turbo kick' available if required.
The next two weekend will be filled with 25-30 mile rides on either or both days, with evening midweek rides when I'm home in time. I suspect Friday might be the only day this week I can do that.
So with 18 days to go I'm now honing the list of items I need, which will be gathered this week.
I know my team mates are training hard with Pads pushing further that me this weekend and Neil continuing to run up muddy hills for fun!
Should be good fun as well as making sure I keep up my fitness campaign. Just hope people can help us reach the fundraising total. To donate click here bit.ly/JEM18c
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