Highland Fling Preparation - better late then never

I have some cracking rides, all around the 90min mark but at a good hard pace.

I scored a ticket to the Highland Fling and currently entered for the 100km. I've only got about 16 days to get into gear. So I need lots of big ring hills, high cadence sessions and more hills. The race has 2300m of climbing, ouch. I'll do a trail race about a week before to see how close I am and may drop it back to 50km depending on how suicidal I'm feeling.

I set out and completed a 20km time trial course this afternoon and finished it in 1:09mins. This will be my benchmark for a maximum effort session. At the end of the ride my hips were sore and I had a little lower back pain. I'm guessing because I haven't done many rides as hard as that over the last 2 months or so.

TLC Cycles have tuned my brakes to near perfection, new pads and a bleed and my levers are back out to where I like them. That is with minimal  free-play, I like to be able to just tap the brake sometimes without going into a full skid or front wheel wash out, can be the difference between staying on line or getting sent into the bush. My descents felt good cause I could easily tuned the bike and speed on the way down.

I'm doing a 55km ride tomorrow morning. Its mainly tarmac and firetrail so 2:30mins is probably a good goal.

Until next post.
Keep your bike tuned up :-)

I'm back in the game

I've had a little break from training, been doing the odd ride but nothing serious. So it's time to get back into it.

Daylight saving has arrived and so have the regular afternoon rides. I'm going to start doing some short and sweet entries about individual riding sessions and see if I can get some progress on the board.

Next ride booked in for tomorrow.

Here's a little photo of my son Callum. When he is on my shoulders he just moulds around the back of my head, I couldn't resist.

RIP Marco Simoncelli - Super Sic #58