Did you all buy Cycling Weekly this week and read the article about theEtap 2008 course? Some bloke rode it and I don't think it is as easy as some people are making out.
I don't know how you all got on over the weekend but I managed 41 miles on Saturday and 36 on Sunday even though The Wife had last week told me not to make any plans. It was not easy though, (the cycling that is rather than getting permission from the wife, but believe me getting permission wasn't that easy either, and despite getting out most weekends at present and visiting the gym occasionally (very occasionally, but I did manage two sessions in the gym last week) my fitness is at an all time low.
Saturday I was out with the London Dynamos in Richmond Park. I managed 3.5 lapsbefore being dropped, and only lasted that long because we had to slowdown after 2 laps because we had caught the group in front. If we hadn't had to slow down I would have been dropped at the end of that second lap. I managed to get home at 11:20, only 20 mins after curfew.
Sunday I was only given the all clear at 8:00 AM by The Wife so I shot out the door before she could change her mind. I stretched the 11:00 AM curfew deadline to 12:00 PM and managed a slice of coffee and walnut cake, a Box Hill and Ranmore both sides (800 metres of elevation according to my Polar CS600).
I have faced up to the fact that for practical reasons he Etap is not on for me next year, so I won't be joining the Guilford Pelaton at the gitte, but I am dammed if I let them do the training without my input. Besides, if I don't do the training all this cake I have got used to eating is going to cause me to balloon, or if I give up the cake the National Trust Tea Shop on Box Hill will go bust, and we wouldn't want that would we?
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