Sunday 26th March 2017
When I started this blog with 20 weeks to go the whole adventure seemed a long way off. Now with just 10 weeks to go it seems to be rushing up.
This weeks training was a bit of a let down after the previous week. The poor excuse this week is wind, not from the Indian curry on Wednesday night’s boys night out but from the north east. Started well with 28 miles Sunday (368 meters), 17 miles on Tuesday (288 meters) with a 15 mile turbo session between these two. Problems started on the rides on Thursday and Friday with very strong winds which were quite frightening, only managed 31 miles (345 meters). Will try harder next week -including a CTC ride on Wednesday to Arundel.
Week 20 6 hours. 6 hours
Week 19 7 hours 7.5 hours
Week 18 7 hours 8.5 hours
Week 17 8 hours 8 hours
Week 16 9 hours. 9 hours
Week 15 10 hours 10.5 hours
Week 14 10 hours 10 hours
Week 13 100 miles 91 miles
Week 12. 110 miles 132 miles – 1975 meters of climbing.
Week 11 120 miles 84 miles – 69 on the road and 15 on the turbo – 1001 meters climbing.
Week 10. 130 miles
Weight still coming down despite the curry on Wednesday and the takeaway Friday. Would still like to be one stone lighter before I get to Lands End. Earlier this week I put books into a bag with a total weight of one stone. It is very heavy when you actually lift one stone and to think that I could be climbing the hills with that amount of weight less to carry is a great incentive to continue the diet.
Still the tickets for the train trip from Inverness to Inverkeithing are not on sale so will kept checking every morning.
I have been looking into recovery drinks and handle bar bags this week – the excitement never ends. As yet no success with a bag that will fit my butterfly handle bars (photo below). Bags are too wide to fit my bars
as they are designed for flat or drop bars but I will keep looking. Will be trying some recovery drinks this week to make sure they don’t disagree with me.
During this week I shall be working on the training plan for weeks to go 9 – 5.