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by **Toks** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:22 pm

Well after nearly four weeks completely off the bike I'm feeling distinctly unfit so compared with this time last year I feel WORSE ! I did nearly 50 miles yesterday and bonked badly at the end - :lol:

Nevermind I love a challenge - Lets hope Bletchingly on April 4th doesn't comearound too quickly :shock:

. Here I/we go again but rather slowly at this point

by **Toks** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:40 pm

Great stuff Marco, glad to hear it. Maybe late in the summer you'll be able to challenge you're own BMX 10mile TT record. My brothers left me with a pretty decent machine which lies in my Cellar so maybe I'll bring it down to Holmwood and give you a run for ya money :lol:

by **-Adam-** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:41 pm

Dude! Why 4 weeks off?

A lot stronger, and more importantly wiser, myself.

by **Toks** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:47 pm

[quote="-Adam-"]Dude! Why 4 weeks off?

A lot stronger, and more importantly wiser, myself.

by **Andy E** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:40 pm

Definitely better, although it's not really showing just yet.. This time last year i was in between houses and renting a room off of a mate, and there was no consitency in my riding until about April once i'd moved and done most of the decorating :roll:

This year i'm riding consistently and everything's going according to schedule, i just keep reminding myself there's no need to rush it, the big races in the summer are a long way off yet

by **Antloony** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:40 pm

Erm do I need to answer this :wink:

I think I have improved in the last year quite a bit. This time last year I was getting spat out of the back by the 18's. Now I'll stick with the training group, go on the chain gang on a weds night, go head to head with anyone for a sprint and quite happily enter races with a bit more confidence. Not bad for one ride a week and no coaching or specific training, all I've done is ride my bike and loved doing so.

Quite pleased with my first full year of cycling.

by **Snoop Doug** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:17 pm

[quote="Antloony"]Erm do I need to answer this :wink:

I think I have improved in the last year quite a bit. This time last year I was getting spat out of the back by the 18's. Now I'll stick with the training group, go on the chain gang on a weds night, go head to head with anyone for a sprint and quite happily enter races with a bit more confidence. Not bad for one ride a week and no coaching or specific training, all I've done is ride my bike and loved doing so.

Quite pleased with my first full year of cycling.

by **Keith** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:52 pm

[quote="Antloony"]Not bad for one ride a week

by **Keith** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:57 pm

Back to the question.

Better or Worse? I think I can only really answer that in a few months time when the effect of training can be demonstrated (or not! :cry:

)

Looking back at my diary I'm riding more this year (despite the weather), and I'm still loving being on my bike. Guess that's better then.

by **Antloony** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:02 pm

Damn it, Keiths rumbled me.... :shock:

Well the high mileage weeks were one off's so there :lol:

by **Christophe** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:59 pm

A lot better...
which is normal as last year was the first full year of back to cycling...

I actually started training (riding don't expect anything too fancy and tiring) in October last year and am just shy of 1000 km...
last year I got to the 1k mark at 18 April :mrgreen:

so whatever it is... it can't be worse....

by **Toks** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:20 am

[quote="Keith"]Back to the question.

Better or Worse? I think I can only really answer that in a few months time when the effect of training can be demonstrated (or not! :cry:

)

Looking back at my diary I'm riding more this year (despite the weather), and I'm still loving being on my bike. Guess that's better then.

by **kieran** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:49 pm

oh, look its Felix English from CP 1st again.

Anyway, I think I am at about the same level of 'fitness' as this time last year, as this time last year I was ill! Did the extended (dual carriageway and box hill) club run on my own on Saturday and went up box hill at around 16-17 KPH, so some room for improvement! I need to up that to 24-25kph to be competitive at CP.

by **Toks** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:55 pm

[quote="kieran"]oh, look its Felix English from CP 1st again.

Anyway, I think I am at about the same level of 'fitness' as this time last year, as this time last year I was ill! Did the extended (dual carriageway and box hill) club run on my own on Saturday and went up box hill at around 16-17 KPH, so some room for improvement! I need to up that to 24-25kph to be competitive at CP.

by **Robh** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:59 pm

It would be about 6 mins 10secs perhaps?

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