Training Update Week 19

Rushing towards L2P24 at pace now - only 68 days to go! Jersey design released, updated route and profile, instructions coming thick and fast oh and an SiS freebie too!

Funding target has been surpassed - £1,896.26 is the lastest total, with the curry night still to come- come on!

So on with the stats, just over 250 miles completed this week, the most for a few weeks, thats now 3,239 for the year to date. Longest day in saddle 51 miles.

BMI 23.58, Wii fit age 36.

Under 3 weeks to the Norwich 100, and may do a fundraising ride next weekend for Voice for change, cycling 39 miles around the Wensum Valley

In other news, the Giro is under way, with crashes spicing up the first couple of stages in the Netherlands. Wigo in pink day 1, but then falling victim to the crashes, Evans, Vino swapping the maglia rosa until Liquigas stored the TTT, and then Evans wins a stage on a hideous rain and mud soaked day yesterday with vino grabbing back pink. Millar in 3rd. First Mountain stage today - watch GC change again.

Tour of California kicks off today - watch Cav and HTC blast their critics, letting his legs do the talking - also watch out for Big George and The Shack too.

Curry night tomorrow and plenty of miles planned for the week. More next time...

Every Dog has it's day...

A sad day yesterday, almost 9 years and 9 months to the day, we had to make the difficult choice to have our pet Leonberger, Febi put down.

She had suddenly deteriorated health wise in the past 2 weeks, to the point where she was not wanting to go out for walk and even getting up and moving around was clearly too much effort.

The picture shows her not so much as sat on my lap, more like swamping me and the chair, and was probably taken around 6 years ago.

A great dog and a massive part of the family and home that will be hard to fill. - Funny how the things that she would be berated for are now the things that you miss...?

L2P24 updates and stuff

OK so as official Cyclist A, we now have the splits of mileage that we are to do each:

We also have the profiles of the route, firstly the UK section:

then the french bit:

PB's for 2010

Personal Bests for 2010, as per Endomondo tracking

One hour   19.75 miles
10 miles     26m:08s
20 km        35m:20s
50 km        1h:38m:49s
50 miles    2h:42m:59s
100 km      3h:38m:06s

OK not earth shattering but i am an old man - plenty more where that came from... hopefully

How cool is this?

This is the (long awaited...) design of the FREE jersey that all participants in the L2P24 raising money for Scope will receive. Team colours would appear to be based on the old Discovery Channel Team colour scheme, complete with Livestrong-esque yellow banding. Obligatory sponsorship logo's plus our team name will end up resplendant on the left breast. Loving the Keifer Sutherland numerals too!
Rather flattened I admit in its current pictorial state, but nonetheless still looks pretty dandy - huh?
 
Now how about a pair of matching bib shorts - or could that just be a fashion statement too far?

Training Update Week 18

75 days to go to the start - reality sinking in.

A great week - where do i start?
Mileage not awesome but consistent at 203miles, longest day in saddle at 52 miles that's a massive 2988 for the year to date.

Quiz night fundraiser was a great success with fundraising jumping to an equally massive £1,658.24!

But maybe best of all is the Giro prologue result - First Grand Tour for Team Sky, and first stage win. Wiggo blitzes the Prologue TT course and ends up in the Maglia Rosa (Pink Jersey) see below:

That's 2 years running with a Brit in pink after stage 1! Sky now need to defend the jersey for a day or two before the TTT where they will look to win again!

More next week...

Training Update Week 17

Under 12 weeks to go - eeek!

A good week this week I feel:
243 miles completed, that's 2785 year to date.
Longest day in the saddle only 47miles but still ok.
BMI 23.54. Wii Fit Age 31.
Fundraising up to £1,193.44 - creeping up. Quiz night next weekend - hoping for 10-12 teams, just need people to book in!!! - 4 weeks to go to hit Fundraising Target of £1,800.

In other news - gotta love Cav don't ya?

A simple point (or two) made to the watching critics and he gets slammed. Surely he was only telling us he had now won his 2nd race of the year???

Anyhow he is still is the best sprinter in the world, regardless...

Emma Pooley wins again, Levi still leads the Gila, and the Giro starts next weekend - cant wait for Sky's debut in a Grand Tour.

 

More next time...

Another century?

Just in case the Norwich 100 is not quite enough, there is another opportunity to complete a century this side of L2P24.

Huff and Puff Cycles at Kelling Heath are again organising the ride opposite, on Sunday 27th June with an option of 25,50 and 100 milers up for grabs.

Why not make it a family day out? - Download a booking form and maybe see you there?

Training Update Week 16

Sweet sixteen? Not an earth shattering week, but still a good one. Weather beautiful and dry - could be a bit warmer in the mornings but legs out ad fully on show now regardless!

The stats:
215 miles for the week - down on recent weeks, but enforced day off at start of week, has led to only 5 cycling days, so not too bad. That makes 2,543 for the year to date - Over halfway towards my "annual target" - revised aim is definately at least 5000 miles pre Paris in July. Revised annual target in negotiation!
Longest ride - 50 miles, a lovely ride in the norfolk countryside in the sun, holding out for a smidge under 18mph pace - even if i didn't recognise the roads for 15 miles of it! - 3 deer decided to appear momentarily in the road in front of me. but progress was not hindered too much.
Wii fit age peaked (troughed?) at 25, but i finished the week at 28, so still pretty good, and my BMI has dropped to 23.3 that's around 158lbs or 11st 4lbs - all good!
Fundraising for L2P24, up to £1,163.44. Quiz night and Curry night open for participation and a school assembly tomorrow at Simon's son's school to rase awareness and request donations too!

In other cycling news, Evans takes Fleche Wallone (with an attack to beat Bertie), Emma Pooley takes the womens version from Nicole Cooke.
It was a case of ex-dopers reunited at Giro del Trentino, with Vino taking the overall, Ricco taking a stage and ending up 2nd, and Basso also top 5. Sad to hear of Frei and Li Fuyu both being suspended for failed drugs tests - but the fight goes on and is being wo - slowly (On the doping front when is AV gonna be banned across the world not just in select countries?)
Last classic today with LBL - looking forward to that one.
ToB route was revealed this week - Sept 16th, stage 6 and the route goes from Kings Lynn to Gt Yarmouth - day off already booked!
Tour of Romandie kicks off on Weds. May is looming fast and with it comes the Giro and the Tour of California to name but a few.

Favourite sign off on a cycling forum - "Cycling is like church - many attend but few understand"

More next time...

Number 42!

Not the Kumars from... nor the answer to life the universe and everything but my rider number for this years Norwich 100.

Route would appear to be unchanged from my last outing (on the 50) in 2008, just remains to be seen whether it is a clockwise or anti clockwise affair?

Details and booking for this years event can be found here

Should be a good training indication 7 weeks ahead of L2P24 and hopefully the sun will shine?