TT Time

The grand total of tt intervals done this calendar year is..............1! I am not going to let that stop me lining up for club champs tomorrow arvo though. If anything, it will be a good benchmark for the Auckland champs which are on the same course in 6 weeks....it will be minutes, not seconds coming off the time by then.

Anyway, the tt rig got all spruced up last night, disc went in and got all tuned up and road tested, at 9.30pm, and its all ready to fly. For me this is something quite significant as usually I'm messing round with parts the night before getting all worked up and shitty.

I have a nice new skinsuit for tomorrow as well, cheers Gordy, but as its mainly white, it may get saved for another day if the forecast rain arrives....that and I have no white booties yet and would hate to clash.

So fingers crossed, stepping back on the tt bike for a waterfront tt usually makes you hobble around for the rest of the day as you use a whole new bunch of muscles. I am not looking forward to the feeling after 40kms. One thing is for sure, tomorrow wont be a day for spinning....there is going to be a lot of grovelling and pushing the big gears....c'mon legs be good!

A good turn gone punished

I was out training last night doing some hill efforts, emphasis on hill efforts at night time (motivation is high) and came across a rider that had punctured and was sitting on the grass and had both wheels off the bike. I decided to stop and make sure all was well, he had punctured and had left his tyre levers at home and had called his wife to come and pick him up.

I haven't used tyre levers in ages, so I offered him some help and advice on how he could get by without them. He said the tyres were impossible to get off without levers, so I made sure he was starting at the valve and working his way around with both hands so he could pry it off with his thumbs....he wasn't interested.

I also mentioned that if you get real stuck then you can use your quick release....he wasn't interested. All he did the whole time was sit on the grass and say how that they were impossible to get off without levers "they're not like mountain bike tyres". I had done the good thing and offered help, he obviously didn't care so I left him to it, I needed extra recovery time anyway so it wasn't a major to stop and was heading for home anyway.

So I get going again, and no more than 200meters down the road and psssst! not happy but didn't really want to stop and practice what I had just been preaching, so I rimmed it home. Talk about a good turn going un rewarded

its been a bit busy round these parts

so here is how my last 5-6 weeks has gone...

1 weekend in Australia
1 weekend in Whakatane for a 21st
1 weekend in Taupo for a wedding
1 weekend welcoming home our new puppy
1 weekend in Rotorua for a family holiday
1 weekend sitting on the couch looking at the rain

so its been fairly low key cycling wise with the bike taken on none of the above trips which was nice for anyone else invloved but not great for the form but lack of bike trips means I obviously wasn't too fussed. It is early winter after all.

Work has also been crazy busy as well which has meant the motivation for early morning rides has slipped somewhat over that time....but at least the recession won't take my job for the moment.

I am probably underselling how much riding I have been doing, just not a great deal of quality but that will come.

Holiday time

There hasn't been a lot of riding the least 10 days as I tweaked my knee and was struggling to ride pain free for anything more than 20minutes so I shut it down for a bit. Its been quite nice timing though as I fly out to the Gold Coast this arvo for 5 days of doing not much at all which should be mint. Its not really summer I know but need to get away and re charge the batteries, more work batteries that riding ones as I haven't been running them too low recently.

Its been cold up here the last 2 days so hopefully when I get back its not down to single digits and full blown winter.

Investment advice

While I am on a financial angle I thought I would dish out some free investment advice to make everyone out there rich. Now this isn't invest in share xyz or Currency B or even to buy gold. Thats all tried and trusted and you don't need to be a genius to work that out.

This advice is based purely on supply and demand, so go and buy Malt Biscuits. Stand back and take a deep breath and I will explain.

I am going to Deborah's sisters wedding in Taupo this weekend, so my job is to make my killer lollie cake to keep everyone energised during Fridays working bee. No problem I thought and I went to the supermarket last night to get the supplies, one of the key ingredient is a 3 packets of Malt biscuits....I was tripling the recipe as I needed to feed an army.

anyway, Pak n Save Glenn Innes....Sold Out
Foodtown Quay Street.....Sold Out
5 various gas stations.....Not in stock
Countdown Greenlane......1 packet in stock

I would have paid a lot of money for another 2 packets last night, so I am stuck now with only 1 batch of lollie cake and a 4 hour drive this afternoon to taupo. I am not liking the chance of having any of the stuff left by the time I get down there.

Oh and good lucky Shaina and Tom, I'm sure it will be a great day!

Help out the Recession

without wanting to get all doom and gloom, I think everyone realises we are in a recession and consumer spending will lead us out of it or will at least help.

In light of this I urge would appear to be the vast majority of auckland cyclists to go out and buy some leg warmers. They aren't terribly expensive compared to the bike and time you spend on the sport. I am amazed how underdressed so many riders are in the mornings. I head out covered head to toe usually and am still cold for the first half an hour. Seeing people riding at 5am in shorts, a short sleeve top and a fluro vest just slows down the warming process for me.

Forget the performance benefits you will get from leg warmers, the reduced probability of injury and the reduced recovery times....its just makes sense, and will help out the recession.

a bit slow

this week has been a little on the slow side training wise as a stupid thing called work has got in the way so its drastic action time. Didn't get out Tues or Wed so its intervals tonight and tomorrow morning before shutting it down for a coffee spin....who needs recovery.

I think the next race on the wards is May 2 at Counties and then a 2up TT and then the Queens Birthday tour which is always a good road trip to the naki, had some good times and some not so good times over the years at that tour so might do some reminiscing closer to the race about it.

Happy Easter

I know its a few days late and all but what the hell. I had a really good ester break which started Wed lunchtime, so I got 5.5 days and really felt like I had a good break. There is nothing worse than waking up after a break and wondering where the time went.

I managed to get 2 rounds of golf in, 400 and something Km's on the bike, a sneaky trip to the pub and almost a win in mini golf. I actually had the game in the bag til a bit of a choke on the last in which I was left with 3 meters to tie the game....couldn't really afford to miss it and let a girl beat me.

I'm also not too disappointed with my picks for Roubaix. Boonen was the big favourite so I'm not taking and credit for picking him...but to chuck out 6 names and have 5 in the top 11 including 2 guys that weren't on many radars isn't bad...now I just have to back it up in the upcoming classics like Amstel, Gallipoli cup and Leige

Nice Photo

Just seen this on the web and I rekon it sums up the different emotions in our sport brilliantly. The difference between winning and loosing can only be centermetres yet the diffrence between the 2 team mates joy vs the guy in seconds despair is brilliant.

And for anyone who doesn't understand the team aspect of cycling, the teammate giving it the bigger posting says alot. This wasn't a classic but I'm sure it doesn't matter to these guys as it will probably help secure contracts for next season already. Dom Rollin who rode southland last year is in the Cervelo kit on the left of screen and aussie Baden Cooke is furtherest to the right. Other than that your guesses are as good as mine.

Prediction time

I was meant to put my picks up here before last weekends Tour of Flanders, lucky I didn't though as it wouldn't have been pretty.

So here goes my Paris -Roubaix pics...

I think Boonen and Flecha go to the finish with Tornado Tom easily winning the kick, hope Flecha wins though with Leif Hoste rounding out the podium.

Its supposed to be wet and muddy so maybe its even a break that makes it to the finish so a couple of extra names that I think could sneak a result...Johan Van Summeren, Wouter Weylandt and Martin Elmiger. There you go go loose all your money at the TAB.

And go the Warriors this afternoon!

A good weekends work

I have managed to put together a pretty solid weekend on the bike which is good for the morale...but not so flash for the legs right now.

I managed to get a 3 hours spin on Friday just to loosen up the legs after playing a couple of rounds of golf on Wed-Thurs so that was pretty uneventful.

Saturday was a bit of a stop start affair. The plan was to do 100k with Gordy in the waitaks but when I got to his place its was looking like it was about to tip it down, so an hour on the coach watching docco's seemed like the best bet while the weather passed. Once it did it was 3.5 hours in the hills on quite a good circuit which is all either up or down and very quiet roads. I was well and truly in the box by the end of the road, so after 130kms it was time for an hour in bed to aide the recovery...does twice the job of skins and recovery shakes I reckon.

I have just got back in from the Sunday Bunch over Albany way. I left home at 4.45am and just walked in at 12.40 so that 8 hours I think and 195kms or there abouts. It was a good ride with Will, Gordy, Murray and Pamela. Again nothing major dramas but a good ride with some mates which always makes the hard yards that much more bearable, in fact it was pretty good fun this morning which was mint.

I think the 400k over the 3 days has earned me an Easter egg, I won't go crazy otherwise I'll never get off the couch this afternoon, and the house needs a clean before Deborah gets home.

Night Rider

Things are getting pretty dark before work on the training rides at the moment which is making for some interesting experiences. here are a couple of interesting things that happen in the dark when riding, mainly day time but Day Rider sounds no where near as good as Night Rider.

• I have done my hill reps on Mt Eden for a while now....they aren't really helping the climbing that much but then again I don't think doing hill reps up Alpe D'Huez would help me that much. Anyway there are no lights on the climb and no cars are allowed up before 7am, so its pitch black except for my tiny little blinking white light. This is of help only to the walkers/runners/dogs and cattle that also use the road. They give me no visibility of whats coming up, all I get is a shadow approaching and have to try and navigate my way around them. I did almost bin it last week when I wasn't prepared for a little dog who thought my shadow looked like something worth chasing. So far I haven't come unstuck which is useful....they have been a few frightened walkers as I slowly grind past them....maybe a need one of those goofy head lamps those dirty mountain bikers use.
• I think some cyclists don't eat carrots as often as they should. This morning Meechy past me going in the other direction no more than 7 meters away, and despite me screaming "meechy" at the top of my voice he was none the wiser. He must have been in the box or something.
• Night riding meets Night Racing each Wednesday on the way to the mast up in the waitaks. Its usually single file at the bottom and see how long you can hang on for. Usually you only have the sound other riders breath and gear changes to indicate how well someone is going. In the darkness you get the added sensory aid of seeing the rider behinds light either slipping off the wheel or making it back on as the climb changes gradient. Lat Wed was classic as I must have seen the light behind drift off and get back 6 or 7 times before it disappeared for good.

These fun times will end this weekend when Day light saving ends and it gets lighter in the mornings.

Shameless promotion of Subway

As I start typing this entry, I am not really sure where this is going to end up or why even I m blogging this topic, but there have been a couple of interesting Subway run ins lately and surprise surprise, none of these have had anything to do with cycling.

I was watching tele last night and they was bugger all on, so we ended up watching some show about drunk guys getting up to no good and the cops cracking down on them, I think it was British which should be no surprise. Anway there was an fight at a Subway restaurant where 2 lads were kicking it off with the staff and fighting with the other customers. When the dust had settled and everyone had calmed down the guys ended up explaining that it started because the restaurant had stored the salami in with the salads. No most people know about food safety but to get in a scrap over it was priceless.

Interesting subway interaction number 2. It was lunchtime today and felt like a sub so went online to place my order, placing it online saved me 20minutes in the queue. Anyway on the site you could navigate to any of the international subway sites...here are some store observations.

• New Zealand has 203 Subway restaurants
• Iraq has 20
• Zambia has 4 stores
• There are 4 in Afghanistan, I'm guess there might have been 20 like in Iraq before bombs started dropping
• Lebanon has 2, no interesting Lebanese fact except that Hazim El Mazri is from Lebanon and he has scored more points than anyone else in the NRL.
• there are 2 in Aruba...........where on earth is that???? Google says its a small island of the coast of Venezuela

Anyway there is a bit of useless subway info....hopefully that might be enough of a plug to get a ride next year.

Oh and I might have spent the time saved by ordering online by surfing the web

A change of seasons

The last few days have started to get colder which means its a shift of mentality from Summer cycling to Winter cycling. It needs a serious mind change if not only for the weather. In summer, most rides are in shorts and a top and if it rains you get grumpy. In winter, its a case of letting minimal skin face the elements and being happy if you get home dry and you don't have to wash the bike every day.

So tonight the cycling cupboard gets a clean out. Gone are all the summer undershirts, the sparkly white socks, the track mitts, the dark coloured sunnies....

To the top draws now come the long sleeve thermals, all the leg warmers, the booties, the 3 different rain capes, the jackets, the clear lenses.....

The focus racing wise also moves from fast paced crits and fun rides to grovelly short races on dead roads with crap conditions and grumpy riders moaning about the grovelly races which the same people seem to dominate.

so here goes....bring it on

for some reason the spell checker can find the word grovelly, maybe I need an entire post dedicated to grovelling

a week in review

so here goes the last 7 days....

Friday.... felt like a bag of arse, coming down with a cold so blagged work for the arvo

Sat...still felt like arse but opened it up in the tailwind on the waterfront and figured I was up for Sundays race

Sun....Raced Heels on Wheels but probably shouldn't have. Rode up Razorback rd on the way up and definitely shouldn't have, that's one of the harder climbs in Auckland. No more whinging guys that live out south about lack of quality training roads

Mon....Felt sorry for myself and kept the bike in the garage

Tues....Did a recovery ride that should have been done on Monday and felt invincible...yeah right
Wed....Torture loop which threatened to shower us all day but didn't. bumped into Will who had retired....I give him 3 weeks before he's back racing. Got a bee sting and almost binned it.

Thursday....Cyco crit day and the bee sting has caused my left quad to look like a track sprinters. I do very little in the crit, hit it at the bell and showed everyone all my form

that's my week in review, just a normal week on the bike, might have clocked up 450km for the week which isn't too bad all things considered. Next week will be more

All quiet on this front

Not a whole bunch is really happening at the moment. Raced the Rev last weekend and managed to survive all the crashes and get through the race with my health despite the pissing rain for the first 2.5 hours. The rain seemed to have an effect on peoples cornering skills and I haven't seen so many people eat it in a NZ race for a long time. I felt good during the race and carried out the plan I had but just couldn't get over French Pass with the leaders. I had good position going into it before a down hill corner which felt like 900degrees where the two guys in front of me stacked it....so I started climbing last wheel which was never going to be pretty.

Raced the Cyco crit on Thursday night and that was ok, spent a lap and a bit lone wolf, then tried a late move but nothing was sticking so will try it all again in a couple of days.

It was a pretty quiet weekend which wasn't all that bad as club racing starts at the end of March so it was a good chance to set the plan for the upcoming club season.

Next race for me after the crit on Thursday will be the Heels and Wheels race on Sunday....grabbed second there last year so will have to try and go one better this time round.

Stop Press!!!

Lance has found his Time Trial bike....crisis averted and we can all get back to our normal lives.

fresh isn't always best

after a pretty good block of training I ended up having an enforced 6 days off the bike through one thing or another...well actually mainly work as we have moved premises which has meant alot of extra hours and heavy lifting which has left m a bit wrecked.

I rolled out this morning with every intention of doing 3 hours with some solid hill intervals until I discovered that the legs were very sore so wasn't that optimistic. As I got onto the waterfront I bumped into the Subway - Avanti teams Auckland division so sat on a cruised to the end of the waterfront when I decided to just make the day a recovery spin.

Hopefully the legs are feeling ten times better tomorrow for the Cyco Crit and then on Saturday for the Rev as there is a fair bit of climbing on the pacours and a fair bit of $ on the finish line, 10K in prize money which makes it one of, if not the richest races in the country.

I was confident where I was this time last week....now I'm not sure but will have a better idea after tomorrow night.

Love

Time to share a bit of love which I probably don't do enough off round here.

Took my bike in to Cyco to see whether they could put a chain on quickly which they said would be no problem. I had Kinda hoped so as the mechanic there, Colin Cornberg, is a good dude and I roomed with him last year at Southland as part of the might Riverside Rentals team.

Anyway, left the bike there whilst I pooped out for lucnh and a perv with another rider who spends way too much time floating round bike shops. Anyway after the lunch I get back and the following had been done...

• New Chain
• New rear gear cable
• Straightened the rear hanger
• Attached the rear derailleur properly
• Tuned it up
• Cleaned up the bar tape

So now its running mint as, Cheers Col! pop into Cyco I reckon and get your bike running sweat, will probably mean you don't have to train so hard to get the same result.

Hot Stuff

What a weeks its been up here in Auckland with the heat, well more the humidity and muggines. Its been almost impossible to sleep and each time you walk outside you feel 2kilos heavier as you desperately search for some air con.

Wednesday was the hottest day in Auckland for 137 years with the overnight low being 23degrees. That made my Wed morning ride a fun filled affair as I rolled out the garage at 4.45am to head to the waitaks, it took all off about 1km to be dripping with sweat. It was that uncomfortable I almost turned round after half an hour as there was just no escaping the humidity...it was actually 100% humidity....not fun. Anyway after 140kms in that I was rather ruined and its fair to say I was pretty much useless for the remainder of the day.

It was no cooler on Thursday which made the Cyco Crit a fun place to be. The heat obviously got the tempers of a few up as I saw headbutts, punches and general bitchiness. It was nice no get round in one piece and be rewarded with a nice soaking of rain for the ride home.

The worst seems to be over now though as things appear to be getting back to normal which will be nice....although not long now til winter

things starting to click

For the first time in a long time, I am starting to feel not bad on the bike. Raced the Cyco crit on Thursday night and had an early crack and felt good, it did stick and then I missed the move which ended up lapping us for the first time every...nice work guys. Ended up being the only one in the main chase group prepared to put in an effort so I turned it into an interval session and just did large turns on the front to get a workout.

Did my first Sunday bunch today for the year and felt real good on the climbs, I normally hate going up Albany Hill at 6.30am but today I spun up it no worries chatting away which was rather more enjoyable. The climbed not bad for the first part of Hellensville hill before shutting it down half way up.

I also got a touch ratty on the ride home, more of the crap that I was talking about previously with motorist. All this added together have me thinking that things might be pointing in the right direction. So coming up in the next wee while I have the Rev in Hamilton, the the Heels and Wheels in Pokeno then either the Grape ride in Blenheim or Rotorua-Taupo so hopefully I can pick up a result along the way.

Not much love on the road today

So it was back for another Wednesday ride through the waitaks today, but instead of Gordy and I being the haters...the riders became the hated. Whats new, all riders are hated by motorists I hear you ponder. Well usually out west its pretty laid back with quiet roads and and laid back drivers. Over Christmas I even almost crashed into the back of a tractor who was trying his hardest to pull over to the side of the road to let me by.

This morning wasn't one of those mornings. Firstly a lady in a 4WD bombed through a Stop sign at full gas, she never saw us. The attitude of presuming that cars won't stop probably saved us from something a little uglier.

Then whilst riding single file, some old bag got on her horn when she had not only most of our side of the road but also no cars coming the other way. She had plenty of room to get by us but must have been having a bad day...wasn't that smart of her either in her nice new BMW and distinctive personalised plate. I think motorist must think that their horn is going to help the situation but usually all it seems to do is wind themselves up more and give us someone to rip on for the next 10minutes.

Then coming up through Ponsonby so guy leans out the side of a rental van and starts giving me all the expletives under the sun. He was that angry and close that he heard me say Pardon so he started his rant all over again. I hadn't even seen this van out on the road so had no idea what his beef was.

I was pretty pleased to get back to work in 1 piece having survived another day on the roads. I like to think we generally ride responsibly, always singling out for motorists when they need the space and not gapping it through every light in town...Share the love folks!

Armstrongs Back

Like the guy loathe the guy...Lance Armstrong is back and its good for cycling. I was sceptical when he announced his comeback that it would fizzle out like many other great athletes before him. The way he preformed at the Tour Down Under was a sign that he isn't that far away from being in race winning form again. It would have been easy for him to cruise around in the bunch for a week using it as a training camp with a focus on keeping the sponsors/charities happy off the bike.

Every time the race got hard though he was always at the front of the race driving it which was pretty impressive to see. I don't know how that will translate to winning grand tours again but his power numbers are right up there apparently. I do think he will turn heads again at the Tour of California in Feb and then I'll be interested to see how he goes in the Giro.

Either way...its good for cycling. There were almost 800,000 people watching the TDU, double last year. We also got 30mins of highlights each night with the last stage live, the only other race we get live coverage for is the tour.

A quick bit of history about the Tour down Under. Adelaide used to have a round of the formula 1 which the last to Melbourne 12 years ago. They held a poll to see what the people wanted it replaces with and they voted for a cycling tour, which was pretty cool and its grown into a pretty cool event to have all the Pro Tour riders down this way....us kiwis should think of something cool to get them down here like some 1 day races or nice training camps down south...just a thought

So with Tour of Wellington starting today, it was a very quiet Wednesday morning ride....no smack talk, no hating....just silence. It gave me plenty of time to ponder why I wasn't at the Tour of Wellington, so here are my top 10 reasons for not going to well

10. Most days are raced above 30degrees
9. No convoy to utilise when trying to survive on climbs
7. Stupid long steep climbs done at way too high a pace
6. For a 5 day tour there are only 2 stages over 110km
5. technical crits, Mastertnon isn't that bad but the final crit is nuts
4. Have i mentioned the climbing yet
3. Having an 60minutes bus ride over the Rimutaka's...twice!
2. I have done 2 tours of Wellington and only raced in wellington for 3 stages

and the number one reason why I am not racing the tour of wellington

Lasts years stage to admirals hill has left me scarred. 187km in 35degree heat finishing up a 6km climb after the race got blown to bits inside an hour and spending the next god knows how many hours grovelling over climb after climb. Then breaking my forks when the bike fell off the roof on the way home. Then getting back to the motel and finding the guys the ripped the race to bits in the first hour had all climbed off in the second feed. and then....hopefully you feel the pain now as well, its taken me almost a year to write that.

Cracking on the bunchie

It seems like every time I do the Mechanics Bay bunchie these days I end up cracking on half a dozen people and wind my self up into a state of Hate. Yesterday there were 2 guys who's interpretation of cycling attire included sleeveless shirts...they must have been triathletes, but even still. That wasn't their only sin for the day, one of them processed to ride half way down Ti Rakau Dr 3 abreast just so he could catch up with a mate. Then the other one decides that while he was on the front to just roll through a red light at a busy intersection.

Then there were 2 guys in the bunch who had headphones in both ears all day, its a muppet of a thing to do on a bunchie let alone a training ride lonewolf. For one of their efforts, he almost got cleaned up by a truck cause he couldn't hear it.

I think there needs to be a name and shame policy going round where people call out those that put all of our riding safety at risk just because they can't engage their brains when the wake up in the morning...sleeveless tops might not be a safety issue but the other 2 items are.

The last thing I want is to be cleaned up out riding somewhere because a driver has been pissed off by someone else's stupidity.

anyway, thats my rant for the day....its usually a good sign when the Hate is building up as it often means there is some serious training going on

training camp summary

somehow my recent blog post got eaten so here's how my little camp ended up...

The intention was to ride 10 days straight but a mixture of work and fatigue meant I rode 8 out of 10 days for 1140kms averaging 142kms a day when i got out. There were also 5 torture loops chucked in there because I ran out of imagination and figured no ones probably been that silly to do that before. I was going to do dubs on the last Saturday and hit 250km for the day but really couldn't be bothered and common sense says we don't race that far.

a few stats...
KM's.......1140
Km's spent riding with others.....8kms
Morning rides......0
Coffee Stops......0
Police Chases......1
stops at Dairy's for coke and lollies to ensure I make it home.....1, okay maybe 3
abuse by homeless guys....twice, same dude but different days

So has it put me in some sort of shape for the season, time will tell but I was at least pleased with the motivation to get out there and ride. Because it was all done lone wolf there was plenty of time to asses goals and just think up random stuff.....some of which I'll share late. There will different be a story on the police chase and homeless guy but that's it for now.

torture loop number 1

Day 2 of the training camp meant that it was time to pick up the distances so it was off to the torture loop to get some good endurance riding in. Rightly or wrongly I left the house at 2.30pm which usually seems to be the hottest part of the day. All was going well til I got a call from home saying I needed to be home by 8pm so I could have dinner before catching a movie. I got the call in Kumeu which is about half way around the circuit and after a bit of mental arithmetic I figured I was going to be pushing shit uphill to get home in time.

I could either take the soft option and ride home straight up the highway to the bike path and be home by 6.30 or ride fast along along the remainder of the circuit....anyway long story short and got home and 7.50 and was a mess, I went pretty deep.

the movie was Yes Man and was well worth it if your looking for something to see these holidays (perhaps if this job doesn't work out I could be a film reviewer!)

KM's today 150km
KM so far 260km

1 down 9 to go

The day stayed mint and headed out the door for 4 hours of cruising, headed out through Ranui to Taupaki then up to Bethels via the quarry climb up to scenic drive then home. I was planing on chucking a few extra climbs in but thought better of it as it was pretty warm and the 2 bottles of water were starting to run dry.

nothing very eventful happened really as all the cars still seem to be on holiday which is a nice change from what we are used to.

KM's to day 110km
KM's so far 110km

Training Camp

After many hour relaxing in the sun this last week, I thought why not go euro and do a January training camp....It seems like a good idea. The fact that some of our biggest races of the year are in Jan shouldn't stop things...so here goes.

Duration: 10 days
Place: Mainly the waitaks
Purpose: Get some condition

Its probably going to be a very lonely training camp as it will just be me hitting the roads lonewolf as everyone else seems to be away racing, which is what I probably should be doing hey ho!

So I am out the door shortly for a loosener to get the pins used to riding again after taking the last week off.