Its a busy time for me at the moment both at work, and at home with birthdays and weddings, events and planning (oh and there is a kitchen to finish at some point\u00a0!).<\/p>\n
I had a great chat on the train to London last Wednesday night with a chap who noticed I was course planning for the MTBO this coming weekend. After a while explaining all about the sport we got round to talking about him and his fitness and in particular the fact he had given up smoking in February. I found it extremely difficult to keep a straight face when he told me the reason for giving up was that he found himself taking stronger and stronger cough mixture when he had a cold at that time, in order that he could still have a fag\u00a0and it was making him feel ill !
\nLast weekend saw Walton Chasers staying in Hawkshead Youth Hostel in the lakes for it’s annual pre season technical training. Although poorly attended, compared to previous years,\u00a0those that made the trip north got to run\u00a0in some of the most intricate contoured forests in England. After lots of training exercises on Saturday Cath set a very tough ‘training championships’ course for the Sunday that really stretched people. In fact I was the only one to get round the whole of the long course, the GPS showing I had done 515 metres of climb, but the experience of running in such intricate contour and rock detail is invaluable to orienteers normally used to competing in fairly simple Midlands forests and should put them in good sted for the coming racing season.
\nWe called in at Wilfs on the way home and luckily for me there was a big demo day going on in the car park. I got to oggle lots of expensive bikes whilst Cath and Holly got to stand in the lunch queue !<\/p>\n
Ive had a fairly easy week on the training front as I have been planning the MTBO ready for Sat 21st and am competing on Sunday at the National League Trailquest in Sheffield. As we have a houseful of mountain bikers staying for Friday and Saturday night\u00a0I hope Cath doesn’t get too fed up with lots of ‘bike talk’ but it should be a great weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Its a busy time for me at the moment both at work, and at home with birthdays and weddings, events and planning (oh and there is a kitchen to finish at some point\u00a0!). I had a great chat on the train to London last Wednesday night with a chap who noticed I was course planning … <\/p>\n