Wind, Rain, Fog and a MTB

Today saw my first ‘real’ bike ride since August, Scotty (my occasional training partner and a trainee for IMDE) and myself ventured out on our Mountain Bikes and it was hard work, although we were on MTBs we road on the road for about 30-35miles, the weather was rather bad, it rained (cold rain) on and off for most the ride, it was windy for the whole ride with half of it being head on and it was foggy, half of the ride very foggy ... BUT I enjoyed it, it made a change from sitting on the turbo staring at coach Troy or some other such DVD coach.

I struggled, I’ll not deny that I am crap on a bike and think that i always will be but i enjoy my cycling and want to spend more time in the saddle ... just because you are not very good at something doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it ... so have fun out there

Snow, Snow, Snow

As the country is gripped in the ‘big freeze’, as the media would have us believe, the big question is always do i go out to train ... or not?




Well for me it has to be ‘get out there and do it’ or (JFDI) ... but all within reason ... there is no open water swimming at this time of year and the snow covered roads are far too bad for cycling, so that leaves running. In the past week I have managed to get out for a few runs and the photo above, from my sitting room window, shows the sort of conditions that greeted me.

The main thing is not to get to caught up on things and adjust your training appropriately.... if you are running in knee deep snow; you can’t expect to do long fast runs, but you can still work hard ... and believe me, running in knee deep snow is hard work.