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Ok so some of you dont stop between seasons, but I've been off the bike now since mid April.
Anyway, last weekend my sisters boyfriend bought himself a bike to start triathlons. We decided to go for a ride yesterday. He should be fitter than me currently as he has been training both in the Gym and on the road for a few months now.
So off we go at 9am on a icey Sunday morning. We had desided before hand that we'd cycle out to Eikenhof and back. A 42km round trip. In my mind I was thinking that as this if my first ride in a while, if I cant make it, there are turning points along the way to cut the ride short. Anyway we get to the turning point to make it a 20km ride and I still feel good, at the 30 km tuning point I'm still feeling good. So we landed up doing the full 42km. Admitedly I did not ride it as hard and fast as normal, but it was a start and it felt good.
B.T.W. If we left home 10 minutes earlier we would have won a race. I'm not sure what race it was, but by the cars parked at the finish line there were some big names (Andrew Mclean, Microsoft Cycling etc.). The leaders past us while we were riding and 10 mintues later we crossed the finish line.
Anyway, last weekend my sisters boyfriend bought himself a bike to start triathlons. We decided to go for a ride yesterday. He should be fitter than me currently as he has been training both in the Gym and on the road for a few months now.
So off we go at 9am on a icey Sunday morning. We had desided before hand that we'd cycle out to Eikenhof and back. A 42km round trip. In my mind I was thinking that as this if my first ride in a while, if I cant make it, there are turning points along the way to cut the ride short. Anyway we get to the turning point to make it a 20km ride and I still feel good, at the 30 km tuning point I'm still feeling good. So we landed up doing the full 42km. Admitedly I did not ride it as hard and fast as normal, but it was a start and it felt good.
B.T.W. If we left home 10 minutes earlier we would have won a race. I'm not sure what race it was, but by the cars parked at the finish line there were some big names (Andrew Mclean, Microsoft Cycling etc.). The leaders past us while we were riding and 10 mintues later we crossed the finish line.