Since my last post I've stepped up my riding and feel I have achieved a fair bit. At half term, Ben and I went down to peebles to stay with Calum for a couple hard days riding on the road. A big loop via st marys loch to Moffat and back over the beeftub (which is a lot further than I remembered) left me knackered after day 1 and after waking up to snow the following day we were left at a loss as to what to do. Neither me nor Ben had brought mountain bikes but a cunning plan off putting cross tyres on my bike and Ben and Calum on Calum's two cross bikes we were able to go out for two and a half hours in the snow around Cardrona and glentress. After the ride it really made me think why I even bother having a road and mountain bike, when I can ride 115km on the road one day, then swap tyres over and smash around Glentress the next day on the same bike.
That evening Ben and I headed to Glasgow to race track league before retiring home. Since then I have ridden my first ever Madison session on the track ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtxigEaRT6U ) and had another week or so off the bike with illness. Last Saturday was the first road race of the season at Ingliston and despite feeling under the weather I managed to complete the time trial and crit finishing 6th in both. Today was the second in the series and after a much better warm up I managed to win the time trial ( 7 seconds faster than last week in sub 2 minute race) just pipping Grant Martin who had decided to ride across the grass on the last straight. The crit followed and despite the pace being quite slow I enjoyed it and finished third behind Rory and Grant (the winner).
Tomorrow I'm off to Middlesborough for another crit and the season definitely feels as if it's in full swing already. Cheers for reading, over and out. x
Thanks to John and Phil (I think, sorry if I'm wrong) for the photos and Ryan here's your shoutout.
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