Thursday, 4 August 2011

Plug time!

While I'm at it, a plug for my long-time sponsor Mike Vaughan Cycles

Graph time - Rugby RCC 10

As requested by Richard Evershed some "graph porn", this being from my 19-57 at the Rugby RCC 10 on Saturday. I've smoothed the graph up a bit, one-second recording makes for messy graphs!


I don't use a power-meter racing, when I do I feel I go slower, it distracts me a lot, so here's just speed and cadence!


And Richard, you asked for a cyclist's training structure... I don't really have one!

There's lovely now - Some fresh Conti rubber!

I've been waiting for this tub for a few months now, I love Continental tubs! I've been running a Comp22 on my TT bike for a while now, but to be honest it's not an ideal TT tyre. Oh yes, the Comp22 is grippy as a very grippy thing, but it's best on the road bike! Plus at £65 a pop, it's not the cheapest thing in the world once it's worn out!
 So here we have a new (and hopefully very quick) Continental Podium TT 22mm. I'd best get out and test it sometime soon - I've Coventry CC's 25 next week, which I won last year with a new PB and course record of 52-03... I'm sure I can go faster!

Training - As requested by John!

Or lack thereof today! The last week or so I've done a fair few miles, uncharacteristically for me! Pretty much hard last Friday and today off, still near on 300miles for that time. Couple of chaingangs, a nice 19min TT, a cafe ride and some long solo miles.

So what with the weather, it's a day off today, hopefully I'll get a couple of hours in tomorrow morning, nothing too hard but just get my legs moving. No races this weekend, so we'll see what happens!

Rest day... Almost!

As I've been piling the miles in over the last week (no doubt due to my fantastic new S-Works SL4), I'm having an easy couple of days. 20min each way commuting yesterday and I'll be cutting the chaingang short later (no doubt some will be glad to hear!) So hopefully I'll gather some form soon...

Wednesday, 3 August 2011

First blog

Ok, perhaps I thought I'd give this a go, can fit a bit more than 140 characters here!