Training Status Report - Week 9

15 weeks to go until the big one.

122 miles covered this week (had a day's rest on Saturday!) that makes 934 miles since Christmas.

Discovered this week that i shall be departing from Blackheath in June at around 7am - yikes, although quite how the logistics work out, i.e. do we depart in small groups or en masse etc i am yet to find out.

Bought both the Guardian & the Observer last weekend as they both had cycling supplements in, the sunday supplement was all about cycling in France incl routes for Mont Ventoux, Alpe d'Huez, Col du Galibier, Col du Glandon etc etc - that's next year sorted then!

The cyclosportive event on 1st July where you can enter to ride the official route of stage 1 of this years TDF sold out in about 24 hours, but hey i shall still be in recovery at that point.

Finally Jan Ullrich, has finally announced his retirement after the doping scandal that erupted just before last years TDF, and not finding another team he has decided to call it a day - probably one of the most consistent cyclists of the past decade in the tour and had it not been for a certain Mr Armstrong who knows what the CV could have looked like?