Ramblings

Today was a rest day so nothing much to report, so I have a chance to ramble a bit. Like Sags, I've been tinkering with my TT bike position recently and put it on the turbo last night. I think the position is good, but it may be a little too severe for an IM bike leg. I think I need to widen the elbow pads a tad and maybe raise the bars by one spacer. Photos in due course, of course.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow. Up early for a 2 hour ride with Sags and then home, change and off to collect my "new" car. The new Turbo Man Wagon will hopefully prove to be a bike friendly and reliable beast of burden. And it's green, which is good.

Only 2 more weekends here (not including this one) and then the moving van arrives; am really looking forward to the move and getting the family together again and not have to do that dreadful journey around the M25 every Friday afternoon. The downside, of course, is that there will be no more weekend rides with Sags. I have really enjoyed riding with Mark; we've had short rides, long rides, easy rides and hard rides, had a chance to gossip and put the world to rights. And all the time it's been good training. Occasionally I've made Sags work hard but more often than not he's given me a hard time, especially when the road goes uphill (of course this is entirely due to him being sub 10-stone as opposed to my 12-stone bulk). I've enjoyed it buddy, and look forward to the last couple of weeks and maybe we can get together and ride again somewhere soon. Maybe you will let me pace you on an Ironman bike leg somewhere sometime (although clearly I wouldn't be running afterwards).

Train smart folks.