Sunday - A day for religiously long bike rides. Now, these rides have been fairly non-eventful to date. No real accidents, how that was about to change......
The ride was a great 102km in the Sussex countryside, taking into account two key climbs over beachy head and some beacon i forget the name of! It was at this point the trouble started, the slopes shaded from the sunlight were coverd in ice. Of course we are "Macho Ironmen" (sorry Sarah) "Macho Ironpeople" so after wheelspinning up it we decided to ride down it. Simon was the first to hit the deck. Fortunately it was early on the descent so his pace wasnt too high. However, he still laddered his tights!
Cuts and bruises bandaged up and on we went towards Hailsham. As we were approaching a junction the first cyclist went, the call came back "Maybe" i took one look "No" i thought and slammed the brakes on "Yes" thinks Sarah behind me as we have the inevitable coming together. Fortunately pirouetting (still attached to bikes) across the grass verge rather than into the junction. I'm sure it looked worse than it was to the cars that stopped to help untangle us.
The it was onto the cafe to get hot chocolate in for Alan, apparently bonking behind us!
Rest day Monday - Heavy legs but no soreness from the ride which shows i am making good progress.
A good couple of days training since with a turbo session, weights, couple of swims and an hours run for 12km with an extremely low 130HR which i was very happy about. Another run tomorrow, will try to raise pace a bit, still keeping HR140 and see where it takes me.
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