I have been suffering from sore hips and groin muscle's so after have a few days off riding i decided to visit a local physio, we had a good chat, she stretched me around and informed me my hips may not last forever, does anybodies!? and I need to improve my stomach muscles, other than that she felt I was ok to race. so as soon as i escaped the physio i went for a 3hr ride, then a 2hr ride the day after.
The day after was the 2nd Gorrick Brass Monkeys, it was 4 degrees and icey, but the course was dry and fast. The start was slower than expected so I moved to near the front, I did my usual of attacking on the hills to clear the traffic and was comfortably in the top 10, this lasted 3 laps, after that just seemed to loose power, suffered on the hills and just felt tired, I did another 2 laps before calling it a day, had time for a 6th lap but decided to save myself from a slow recovery. 20th in the end.
Next round isn't till the 22nd of january so I have time to recovery and get some endurance and speed back before deciding on events to aim at.
some nice pics from the race here, must buy some soon
Damn! Sorry to hear that. Lots of that going round at the moment. Recover quick and recover strong.
ReplyDeleteYou're all doing it wrong though: December is a month for playing in the woods on bikes, eating both mince pies and satsumas in huge quantities, plenty of other months for racing ;-)