Activity | Road Biking | Whitestone, United Kingdom | MotionBased Dashboard

Activity Road Biking Whitestone, United Kingdom MotionBased Dashboard

Managed some decent training this weekend despite my wife being on nights, a tree hitting me in the face (i continued to cut down trees in the back garden and a branch hit me in the face, stop laughing, i now have a nice black eye) and the blizzards!
I went out today in full thermal get up and rode the last 15 miles into a northerly wind which was bitingly cold. I grovelled up the hills, the very same ones i used to ride on a 42/52 chainset with 12-23 on the back, im now using a compact chainset and a massive 28 on the back, it can only get better. At least there is no such thing as a flat ride in Devon so i should be prepared for the hills.
Hopefully now with evenings getting getting lighter i may get out midweek a bit more, its trying to manage it all around work, pregnant wife and daughter, throw into that lot a few odd jobs around the house, cleaning bike(s), updating blog! and watching Champions League on the telly, (yes Nick, Steve, football is important) and you end up with little time left for quality training.
As you have probably noticed i have a new toy, Garmin 305 GPS, (Click on the title) great fun and excellent way to look at training stats (how sad), hopefully as i get fitter?? it will be a good way to observe overall improvements, i am convincing myself there will be improvements!! It was good to see that even though i was struggling towards the end the average speed stayed around 14mph. The peak in the heart rate was big ringing it around the Penn Inn roundabout, not a pleasant place, and the only safe way to negotiate it is at the same speed as the traffic. More stats to come soon.