61 days.. 15 hours.

I am training for an endurance event... now with that in mind I will summarise my training the last two weeks:

I have been up to Llandegla 10 out of 12 days [edit: 13 out of 15 days...]... (sounds good so far), and during that time I have ridden the trials only once! Instead I have spent about 20 hours on the pump track...

So whilst I am now less likely to fall off during mountain mayhem, I probably won’t be fit enough to finish!

I did also do 2 hours on the road bike and a couple of hours in the pool as well as some fluffy weights sessions... but not really anything I could count as proper training :/

My excuse? My knees are a complete pain and anything longer than 1 hour on the bike starts giving me problems – which doesn’t bode well for a race in less than two months! Argh! Co-codomol anyone? More physio booked and at some point i’m praying for a miracle!

However, having said all this, the most exciting thing in my life at the moment? Apart from my new bike, which i still love and gets far more comments than my actual riding.. is the NEW DOCTOR WHO... next Saturday! Eeee. Yes, anyone who sponsors me is, in fact, sponsoring someone with a mental age of about 8.

Thus far, these blog posts haven’t been all that training related and i would attempt to change that fact, except i’m still not training. Tomorrows plan involves Llandegla and a jump bike so it doesn’t look like it’ll get better in the immediate future either... it’s just more fun to jump than spend hours on the bike! Although I will need a couple of days off at some point as i'm accumulating enough bruises to look like i'm being abused - although only by someone about 15 inches high, as all the bruises are shin level... no skirts for me this summer.

xx

Urgh! rain, rain..go away!

73 (i think!) days till mountain mayhem...and fortunately my sports masseuse has just worked (another) miracle and after an hour of massage on friday I managed two full 45 min spins last night with only mild knee discomfort :)

The physio has said my patella isn't tracking straight...3-4mm to far inwards due to a weak Vastus medialis (which, slightly irrelavantly, makes me think of Vashta Narada (Doctor Who) everytime anyone mentions it!) and tight ITB/glutes/ most others things... but as i've had knee pain for a couple of years on and off I dread to think how much damage i've done to the cartilage around my knee!!

I also had another hour of PT last night and after some upside down exercises (something called candlesticks)... which i really didn't like as a) there actually were other people on the gym to witness me having absolutely no core control whatsoever and b) they didn't feel like there were working anything other than my arms... having said that, my abs were in bits today and it hurt to laugh/ mop the floor/ eat chocolate etc... so maybe i'll do them more often :/

Apart from that i'm still not doing that many hours training... and i'm spending most of my time playing around on the pump track and jumps area up at Llandegla.. so whilst my bike skills may be up to scratch i'm unlikely to actually finish the race... but, Dan was the first to utter the words "so...are you actually doing mountain mayhem then?" on tuesday... which makes me even more determined to do it... hence writing a load of rubbish on here... just to make sure I am at least thinking about doing lots of training :)


now i'm off for an early (ish) night so that i'm bright eyed and bushy tailed for a Speed Awareness course tomorrow morning... thank-you North Welsh Police... it better not be sunny or the poor instructor will need to deal with me in a sulk for the full 4 hours... hm

xx