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'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' Theodore Roosevelt 23 April 1910

Friday, 31 July 2009

Quality not Quantity

This could apply to a number of things at the moment - my blogging, my training etc.

Since my last post my training had been a bit poor. I hadn't been feeling well as suggested in my last post and this affected my training and motivation. Some of you have been very helpful in providing motivational info although some of the pictures provided went way beyond exercise motivation (see above for an example!). I've also been on a course at Shrivenham this week so have been away from the web.

Fortunately, my mojo has returned and this week my training has been very productive, including one session of 30 seconds hard 4:30 steady (that had the 30 seconds peaking at over 600 watts) and another 40km turbo TT that was completed in 52:12 at an average power of 312 watts, a very impressive improvement of 13 watts since I last did this test.

So, the mojo has returned, my cycling is improving, and tonight we're off to see the Proclaimers at the Stokes' Bay Festival. Well it would be rude not to seeing as it's right on our doorstep. "When you goooooooooooooo, will you send back, a Letter from America..."
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