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Decent spring day at last
Set off this morning on a three-hour ride. My intention was to get to Pontypridd and back which I did comfortably. Stupidly I forgot a water bottle but one sweats so much less with a good cool air flow that it wasn't an issue. I am thirsty now but not excessively so.
The weather is beautiful today, as it has been for the last few days but other ( Read more... ) -
Conference Gig
Tomorrow and Wednesday I will be chairing an Information Management conference in London. The organisers are covering my accommodation expenses in the conference hotel. The room is probably the biggest hotel room I have ever stayed in; the walk fom bed to loo is probably three times as far as at home!
There is a gym here which has strange exercise ( Read more... ) -
Riding in real life
We had a short holiday last week, in Cornwall. We stayed in a very good gastro-pub near the Eden Project. We walked a fair bit and ate and drank quite a bit . I feared I'd put on quite a bit of weight but in fact no more than .5Kg. However I have lost quite a bit of condition.
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Progress report
It's been over a week since I blogged so I'd better catch up! Firstly, I've got into Twitter so that you can follow me more closely. My plan is to be abe to microblog from my phone (and use Twitpic) as I ride. Still working on some of the technicalities but my profile is at http://twitter.com/KeithUnderdown.. My tweets update my Facebook status but ( Read more... ) -
Weekly report
I need to catch up on my training reports. I guess weekly is ok; daily is a bit too frequent.
Last week was disrupted a bit by a weird virus. I was driving to Brecon on Wednesday and things started to take on an unreal tinge. My reflexes were terrible which is not good when driving at 70mph! I decided not to ride on Thursday. So what did I do? ( Read more... ) -
The Cadence Problem Solved, well sort of!
I got the cadence monitor working yesterday by dint of a big surge but then had to take the detector off to take the bike for the weekly supermarket run (with trailer). So I was not very hopeful this morning when I started my run and, sure enough, it didn't work. However, halfway round I remembered the effect of a surge so I surged an it came back ( Read more... ) -
Good News and Bad News
The good news is that I had a good run today despite some tiredness in the legs-the really bad news is that I mucked up the controls at the end of the run and lost the data! The bad news is that cadence wasn't working again. The better news is that when I went for a sprint finish 30secs from the end it came back! We'll have to wait and see whether ( Read more... ) -
Kit Frustration
I had an interesting discussion on my Facebook Wall with Richard Davies yesterday. Richard is a qualified cycle coach and did the ride last year. He has confirmed that I am right to concentrate on cadence and has given me a daily run that concetrates on getting the legs moving, power doesn't matter as one needs to train the nervous system ( Read more... ) -
Second training run
I did my second training run today. I intend to do something every day, ideally starting just after 0700. I failed in that regard this morning though, I didn't get up until 0815!
I used the Catalyst programme today. This is less exciting than the VR racing as there is no scenery to ride through. Instead you have a control panel showing the ( Read more... ) -
Donations Page now available
In all the excitement of doing my first indoor training run this morning I forgot some important stuff! Firstly I have the information pack from the ride so I must fill in my application and get it off. Secondly I have created my fund-raising page and in a nice symmetry my first donor is the same person that sponsored me first last year! I've put a ( Read more... )