Crash!!!
No,
not literally but my body has gone ‘bang’ (again, aaaarrgghhhh!!). Continued to feel a bit below par all week
and didn’t train between last weds club TT and this one. I HATE early starts but entered this one as
preparation for a potential PB ride on the E2 next weekend. Up at 5:00, drive to Wickham Market and take
a 45 minute warm-up ride around the course on the A12. I used to commute to Ipswich
for a while last year and know this road quite well but it’s amazing how much
hillier it becomes on a bike!!
Windy too – the ride to the turn was
sluggish, the first uphill 2 ½ miles or so was desperately slow. Not especially quick on the way home either! Legs felt like crap, no strength and couldn’t
get warmed-up again. Thought about not
starting but decided to have a go. Got
round in a half-hearted 23:53 which (again) I found a bit embarrassing
initially but there were a lot of riders outside 24 mins so it obviously wasn’t
just me.
Spent ages waiting around for the marshalls
Prescribed myself several bottles of homemade rhubarb wine on returning home to watch the women’s Olympic Road Race (which I thoroughly enjoyed and, for the second Olympics in a row, was massively more exciting than the men’s race!)
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