Training Update - Week 10

Hooray - Weather is improving!

145 miles this wek - broken through the 1000 miles covered, have also worked out a couple more alternative circuitous routes to and from work to increase the mileage a bit. - i.e what is roughly a 10 mile round trip at its most direct, is looking to become a 25 - 30 mile round trip dependant upon route taken.

Good consistent batch of times coming in to work this week and also managed to eclipse previous record time for the interim distance journey home this week and so all in all it has felt pretty good - legs are responding well even at the end of the week.

Congratulations to David Millar in winning the Paris-Nice prologue - doesn't seem worth getting the bike out for 5km, especially when you are travelling at nearly 50km/h but he does look good in yellow (not that saunier-duval dont always have a yellow strip!) - The disco boys done good too Contador 5th and Leipheimer 6th.

Just finished reading "Put me back on my bike", the autobiography of Tom Simpson, probably one of Britains greatest bike riders, who collapsed and died on the ascent to Mont Ventoux on July 13 1967 - a monument to him still exists on the top of the col. Brilliant book and a great tribute to a great man.