My friends, I'm coping with a sudden and serious lack of motivation to get up on that bike again. I haven't gone beyond an hour and a half and only indoor so far (in the lounge to be exact), I've lost about 4 kilos (what's that about 8 pounds?)and my neck and shoulders keep getting irritated, even though I really focus on my position on that fucking thing. Well, at least I have a bike, right Matt?!
I've booked a trip to San Diego, California, next month. Going touring on a bike, but this time one with a big engine between my legs. No pedaling for me.
Anyway, the Malaga sun in March will get me motivated again. In the meantime, any words of wisdom and inspiration for me maybe? Anyone?
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Bike delayed
How annoying - my bike frame is delayed by at least a couple of weeks. There have been problems forging the titanium frames in Italy apparently, so now it won't be shipped over before at least the 8th of Feb. Then at least another week to build the bike. Andy, can you train for this thing in just 4 months?
Friday, January 25, 2008
London to Paris
Peeps - rather than the Malaga trip I think Catherine and I are going to cycle from London to Paris. I'm not sure I want to put my spanking new machine on a plane this early, and the London to Paris route is something we've wanted to do for a while. So if we can organise the days off at Easter, we'll be riding 300km from London to Newhaven, then Dieppe to Paris, with just rucksacks on our backs and credit cards in our pocket. Hope to ride up the Champs-Élysées on Easter Mon to catch the Eurostar home Tues. What daya think?
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Malaga Details
Matt, this one is mostly for you I guess. Not sure whether you got my text, but we've booked flights to Malaga over Easter, a great test case halfway down the road to the Etape! Slavin, Adrienne, Ferris, Toine, Tatiana, the Gorila and myself will be there. Goes without saying you should be there too!
Goril and myself will be there from wednesday 19th - monday 24th,
the Slavins from thursday 20th - tuesday 25th
Toine and his francaise from friday 21st - monday 24th
The aim is of course to do 2/3 serious rides, no idea yet if we'll bring our own bikes but hopefully so. The Skarlund-family support our efforts and have donated their house for this trip, so we'll have a roof, some bedrooms, a few showers and most importantly a roof terrace with bbq. The ocean is about 1km away, so while we're wrecking are bodies on Southern Spains dessert-roads, the girls can mingle with the 80 year old English pensioners and local pensionados. Will put up some pics of the house and stuff later.
The village is called Almayate, close to Torre del Mar and about 20km away from Malaga. Nice little towns close by are Nerja, Frigiliana and if you English folks feel home sick, you can drive to Gibraltar, you practically own the place.
We'll have to rent a car, for the usual errands and so, Goril will take care of that.
Will start looking for routes to cycle soon, lets get on google earth!
Goril and myself will be there from wednesday 19th - monday 24th,
the Slavins from thursday 20th - tuesday 25th
Toine and his francaise from friday 21st - monday 24th
The aim is of course to do 2/3 serious rides, no idea yet if we'll bring our own bikes but hopefully so. The Skarlund-family support our efforts and have donated their house for this trip, so we'll have a roof, some bedrooms, a few showers and most importantly a roof terrace with bbq. The ocean is about 1km away, so while we're wrecking are bodies on Southern Spains dessert-roads, the girls can mingle with the 80 year old English pensioners and local pensionados. Will put up some pics of the house and stuff later.
The village is called Almayate, close to Torre del Mar and about 20km away from Malaga. Nice little towns close by are Nerja, Frigiliana and if you English folks feel home sick, you can drive to Gibraltar, you practically own the place.
We'll have to rent a car, for the usual errands and so, Goril will take care of that.
Will start looking for routes to cycle soon, lets get on google earth!
base miles
All you need is base miles. We just need to get out and clock up the miles and I dont think it matters what the quality of the miles is. Cycling to work, an hour during the week etc. You just have to have lots of base miles I reckon.
Horrible weather here in the UK today so no cycling with the club. I had a poor week and didnt get to the gym as all during the week. I did go for a ride yesterday which was OK. http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/4764017
Today I'll try and gym it.
Anyway, have bought Malaga flights. I'm looking forward to that. March is still quite early in our training schedule but we should aim for three rides but nothing too mental.
Horrible weather here in the UK today so no cycling with the club. I had a poor week and didnt get to the gym as all during the week. I did go for a ride yesterday which was OK. http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/4764017
Today I'll try and gym it.
Anyway, have bought Malaga flights. I'm looking forward to that. March is still quite early in our training schedule but we should aim for three rides but nothing too mental.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Time is running
I would like to update you folks concerning my training-efforts so far, I have to admit till now I did not do that much. The only thing I did was dreaming to finish on the 6 of July!
So far I get a subscription of the gym to do some spinning and cycling on the roller, and thats it. I had an interview with the dietician, I am aiming to loose 8.5 kilos before the big day, but her conclusion was like "this is going to be very difficult". This all makes me frightened a bit, for sure this will be a good motivator! Sign me in for Malaga Lard.
This weekend I hope to manage a bike who can transfer my G-forces to the asphalt.
So far I get a subscription of the gym to do some spinning and cycling on the roller, and thats it. I had an interview with the dietician, I am aiming to loose 8.5 kilos before the big day, but her conclusion was like "this is going to be very difficult". This all makes me frightened a bit, for sure this will be a good motivator! Sign me in for Malaga Lard.
This weekend I hope to manage a bike who can transfer my G-forces to the asphalt.
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