Sorting out the race calendar

While a friend has been busy racing at Hillingdon the effect of seeing him get points and a 3rd cat license made me get a little more focused and motivated.

After starting the commuting to work back up I ended up spending an hour looking through the BCF website to see which events I'm going to target for the comming 6 months. After picking out one particular event, which is 50 miles, it made me think more about my training that will be required for the event. The commute to work will become one of the base sessions for this, which will be backed up by some hill work at the weekends as I think its 6 laps of a 8.6 mile loop with a stonker of a hill (2 miles long and 100m) near the finish line, which should blow the field appart.

Food will also be critical on this one due to the duration as it is just long enough at a reasonable intensity to loose more than 20% of your power if you don't eat and drink.

Plot of the day is from Sunday's random cycle with the sun as my compass (still have not learnt the local names) and getting quite lost. This was a burst up a small hill on a rolling road through a village, averaging 1022W for 10 seconds, which sent my HR up 30bpm in 15 seconds !