Training Log Archive: SimonB

well now have finished cycle tour mentally, will start to work back on my legs to get me running for March. no big plans between now and then. just get it cranking i guess, twelve weeks is pretty long i might have to make some missions.

my shoulder is completely fucked so will go get that sorted out in a couple of weeks i guess.

final leg up over the wairau saddle and down the wairau valley into blenheim, had a sometimes helping sometimes hindering NW wind after lunch and no wind before then. pretty good speed for first fifty odd k but then the wind turned up and we became a bit inconsistent. legs were good i felt like i had a lot left in the tank even though i havent done anything for a month!!

i guess cycling is pretty chilled.

so happy to have planned and seen this through, definitely stoked for more big cycling missions in the future. now i know i can ride 100k in a day and not die so i might have to do something about le race maybe.

yay!

from aniseed valley out along main drag then the golden downs road through to Rotoiti. man. had a shitty little head wind most of the day. and the last fifteen ks were uphill on a low gradient. draining!

one day to go though so things are looking up for the team. the boys. yeah.

C • Go team 2

back up the hill out of Okiwi bay and back down onto the main drag over the whangamoa to nelson. brutal! pretty puffed climbing out but the dh was epic. sweet tail wind for once along the coast into nelson. had lunch then a cruisey ride out to aniseed valley. got a bit sunburnt which made my head hot but i drank lots o water and muesli bars so all good i think. pretty epic.

Event: The Northern Loop
 

rode from blenheim to okiwi bay via the havelock and pelorus with the boyzz. pretty solid, the hill at the end fucked me a bit. had a good swim afterwards and loosened out. good sleep night beforehand. drank lots and ate heaps during ride. we draughted most of the way as well. good day!