Monday, 9 February 2009

First real 100 km

Last week I was in the US for a couple of days were I only had the chance to go to the gym one evening, did a 10 mile ride on a stupid indoor bike with a big saddle (do they think there are elephants in the gym?) - went to Paris for a one day meeting and then came home on Thursday evening late - tired. But managed to go on the turbo training on Friday and Saturday (the weather was just too bad to go outside) for around 45 minutes each time.
Sunday we went out with the Ravensthorpe Cycle Club from Mirfield via Keighley to Otley and back through Bradford (and I still don't like that option too much), anyway, just made it over 100 km (100.5 to be exact) so this counts as my first centennial of the year! I seem to be loosing some weight, which is a good thing as I need to draf all those pounds up when doing the Etappe Du Dales. The average this time was quite OK, 25 km/h as we did some proper cycling on some of the flat roads north of Keighley. Didn't do too much climbing on this trip - only about 1100 meters total ascend. It was certainly a nice ride, hope the weather doesn't turn out too ugly so I can do some riding this week, otherwise it will the turbo again.

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