Training in the snow
This weekend (Easter) has had the strangest weather. Normally Easter is associated with spring and nice cool sunny days, but not this weekend! I went out on two training rides, one on Friday (here) and one on Monday (here). Both days I had to contend with hail stones, which kill on cold bare legs, and strong head winds. On Monday I even had the pleasure of cycling in snow, which fortunately didn’t settle.
Both days I was using my Forerunner to display a virtual partner, basically it allows you to race against a previous course that you have done and it tells you how far behind/ahead you are relative to the virtual partner. Naturally I want to beat my previous times, on Friday I was hampered by strong head winds and at one point I slipped to 0.75 miles behind the virtual partner. I managed to turn this around and finished only 29 feet behind! Monday was a different matter altogether. I was behind for the first 16 miles of the ride, then I decided to push harder an I managed to get to 1.25 miles ahead. Then disaster struck, I had my first puncture in over 3000 miles. It took me the equivalent of 5 miles cycling to fix it. By the time I was back in the saddle I was 4 miles behind, there was no way I was going to be able to make that up! I’ll just have to try it again next week, after I’ve replaced the back tyre.
Hopefully Wales will be warmer and kinder on the tyres…
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