nearly 1000 miles! all is good

spinning in the week was great, it really helped to save my legs and knees I think. I am starting to plan now for what could be a bit of a mammoth March.I have Sam coming over on one weekend, keljonaimdave coming over on another and on the 25th the Snowdonian adventure.

If I am going to do each work day as well I am not going to be getting many rest days.......

knees are fixed now my legs ache!!

it's been a good week, since raising my saddle and spinning all week my knees are fantastic. Now i just have sore legs as I am training my muscles in a new way. All going well though.

4715 to go

Missing last Monday, Feb 14th, I only did 4 days last week.

My knees were aching after last weekend so i decided to spin more in the hope that less pressure would ease the problems. It does worry me a bit, I would hate it if my knees gave way........ Anyway, Monday tomorrow and a full week of riding ahead of me..

4819 to go. great riding this week

After riding, Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday I took friday off in prep for a long weekend including today, Valantine's day. On Friday afternoon though i removed my rack and P8 forks replacing them with my foxes, and fitted a mud tyre, new bottom bracket, new chain and a cleaned out headset. She felt fantastic and was a very easy move to make.

On Saturday morning I took part in Hit The North 2.5, 'the resurrection'. A fantastic ride for chairty in North Manchester. Very muddy and a lot of fun. I started at the back (around 170th) and slowly over took loads of people to finish 52nd. It was more of a good laugh than a serious bit of racing for me as I caught up behind a lot of guys on cyclocross bikes most of the time. A few of the cyclo guys were flying and to be honest it was funny to see them in the same field as the rest of us mere mortals.

So a really fun event and with the 10 miles back on the road after I finished my 16 miles, 2hr 10mins, race gave me another 26 miles to add to my tally. totally 4819.

what a great week in the end. + 130miles

So a really interesting week for me on the bike. I actually went through a grieving process for my fox forks. I appear to have come out stronger for it though. On Thursday and Friday night i fired all the way back from Bury (4 miles up hill) in top gear and out the saddle! Wind assisted i grant you but felt great all the same.

So another full 5 day week of 130 miles pushes me past the 500 mile mark and i now only have 4949 miles to go. Fantastic.

Wet and windy head wind on the morning though. and a dark start as well........

So i decided to stop complaining

and pushed hard on the way home, i decided i couldn't take another night of mopping so got out the saddle and hammered it home. It was a much better ride and i let the bike do it's thing over the rough stuff focussing on my legs fireing me by, and it worked. I cleaned out the hotbox for my Rohloff tonight and finished off the install of the forks. My home made mudguard seemed to work a treat this morning and on the way home. I think i am going to bat on with the 26" wheel till i can borrow a 29er wheel from Dave at the end of Feb. Might need to get a road tyre for it....

A good day...

definitely need to sort out the mud guard situation.