Glancing back at a previous post - Marmite Days i feel the need to add the comment that although cold and bright is good, extreme cold and cloud is NOT! Minus 8 degrees C my Garmin descended to yesterday morning - the feeling in my fingers (not that there was much feeling left) can only be described as Pain, and yes pain was written with a capital 'P' on purpose!
But hey every cloud as they say has a silver lining and today it was 15 degrees warmer today (the correct side of zero!) and 3mph quicker for a similar distance - Marmite indeed!
Tale of the tape reads as 1335miles covered year to date, that's already more than last year for Jan/Feb so all good there. Posh bike has had a few outings too as the Scott (of the Antarctic?!) has developed a slipping chain and rear wheel wobble so hi ho hi ho it's off to the LBS it goes!
In other news, unless you have been in outer space, you will probably know that Steak-Gate, has been resolved and with it the "winner" of the TDF2010. Bertie has been banned for 2 years from summer 2010, meaning that his results are wiped from the records - TDF2010 & Giro2011 to name a few, so congrats Andy Schleck and Michele Scarponi! - So disappointed at what a waste of time, money and effort all round it was, and worse Cycling is dragged through the mire again - the "truth" may never be known but WADA, CAS & the UCI need to get it sorted, perhaps a guilty till proven innocent charge would work better???
In more doping or not related news Jan Ullrich finally admits his doping and apologises for the same - so that's all OK then? And the case against Lance has been dropped with no charges - personally I'm glad but I appear to be in the minority amongst tweeps and other bloggers/commentators.
Back to the sport I love and real race action - Cav gets off to a winning start for Sky doing the World Champs jersey proud in Qatar with 2 stage wins before a tumble on the last stage. Tour of Oman this week, and so more #FantasyCycling action too!
Spring is coming isn't it?
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