1st Track Training Day of 2016

With the Tour of California behind me it was time to get back to the track and turn some of the endurance I have been working on into speed.  Today was an open track training day with no particular training schedule.  A good friend suggested I join them for there training session but unfortunately I missed there warm up.  I did get to jump in on a short pace line effort.  With no structured training and with no plans of my own I decided to turn the evening into an interval session and boy did my legs complain about that.  It was good to open the lungs and discover that I need to do a little brushing up after so many hours working on distance riding and climbing.

I had my support team (Sarah) there to make sure I drank and took on food.  Oh and I got to wear my Friends of Herne Hill jersey to represent the track I cut my teeth on as a school boy and junior back in England.

My next decision is whether or not to race the Ballard Crit on Saturday.  A lot will hinge on my ability to upgrade from a Cat 5 to a Cat 4.  I know those of you that know me will be saying Cat 5, but remember I did not have a UCI ranking until last year and the only UCI road race I participated in was the Redmond Derby Day.  If I can get the upgrade then there are two races I can ride but if not it hardly seems worth the effort for a 30 minute race.  I will get the category hurdle out of the way before deciding on racing or not.



Remember to keep it RubberSideDown and MaxLifeOut.