29 April 2006
Bank Hols Weekend.
It's a 3 day weekend. Oh how I enjoy the Bank Holidays it's a shame we don't get more of them especially in the second half of the year. This weekend has started slowly, I didn't get out of bed until 11.35am when some numpty called up trying to sell me a mortgage. Told them to sling their hooks and rolled back into bed.
This weekend I have a race in Hillingdon in West London on Sunday. The event starts at 11am and I suspect I'll be in race 3 or 4, so that's a fair bit of waiting around. But it should be a good day out, meet up with some of the other handcyclists.
Not much else planned this weekend but I'm sure something will come up.
27 April 2006
April 2006 - Summer's around the corner.
The winter has dragged on, but this has not stopped me from going out at the weekends on my handcycle so I have clocked up some good mileage. But now the evenings are getting lighter and that can only been a good thing. I have just been to the first Handcycle Training camp of the New Year at Stoke Mandeville. There were 3 sessions over the weekend: Saturday morning was a track session which involved some fast group work and we covered about 10 miles just there. The afternoon session was a road work session around the lanes of Aylesbury. We covered 15 miles in total and at the end I was good a properly knackered. Sunday morning we covered the same route as the day before which was good as I know what to expect and where the hills and headwinds were. The problem was the hills and headwinds were all ganging up in the same place.
October 2005 - Slow Update.
Where has the time gone, one minute I was enjoying the summer and going out having fun and riding my bike at each opportunity. Next thing I know, it's enrolment time at the University and all the idiots come out of the woodwork to start up and I'm working nearly 10 hours a day for the better part of a month.
Well I've been riding my bike at the weekend when I can before the winter sets in the the days become stupidly shorter. I've had 2 races since August. There was the Hillingdon GP race on the 10th September were I came 2nd handbike and 5 overall. I had a good race felt fine and had enough in my arms to sprint uphill for the finish. The other race (more of a demo) was in conjunction with the Tour of Britain stage in Westminster on the 4th September, it was a great day out. I stayed to watch the main event and Mum & Dad come down to watch as well. It was a good feeling to be racing on some of the main streets around my home city. Anyway for plans in the future - There is a Handcyling traing weekend on the 22nd October at Stoke Mandeville which should be good prep for winter training. I haven't been to Stoke Mandeville since 1997 so that's some gap. The last race of the Grand Prix season is the St Neots Riverside Half Marathon in Cambridgeshire, which I'm planning to do, start the winter in a good way.
Well I've been riding my bike at the weekend when I can before the winter sets in the the days become stupidly shorter. I've had 2 races since August. There was the Hillingdon GP race on the 10th September were I came 2nd handbike and 5 overall. I had a good race felt fine and had enough in my arms to sprint uphill for the finish. The other race (more of a demo) was in conjunction with the Tour of Britain stage in Westminster on the 4th September, it was a great day out. I stayed to watch the main event and Mum & Dad come down to watch as well. It was a good feeling to be racing on some of the main streets around my home city. Anyway for plans in the future - There is a Handcyling traing weekend on the 22nd October at Stoke Mandeville which should be good prep for winter training. I haven't been to Stoke Mandeville since 1997 so that's some gap. The last race of the Grand Prix season is the St Neots Riverside Half Marathon in Cambridgeshire, which I'm planning to do, start the winter in a good way.
August 2005 - The New Beginning.
Welcome to my site, not much at the moment but it will grow over time as more things happen.
I've been to Paris recently to watch the final stage of Le Tour de France. The most historic event that happened on that day was that a certain Lance Armstrong won a seventh consecutive time. Not just impressive as the most anyone has won the race was five times. I drove down to Paris taking my Dad as co-pilot and Mum as navigator, thankfully I know where Paris is as Mum slept and read all the way down and on the way back. We stayed with Mum and Dad's friends Robert and Christiane in Livry-Gargan.
The Sunday was spent on the Champs Elysées from 11am until gone 7pm, mostly so we could reserve a space by the barrier so there wouldn't need to use too much elbow shoving later in the day as it got really busy. The race itself was good, (so I heard) but I knew that we wouldn't see much but we would see the peleton 8 times and see the parade laps at the end of the race. I have some footage from my camera and I'll get them on here as soon as possible.
I've been to Paris recently to watch the final stage of Le Tour de France. The most historic event that happened on that day was that a certain Lance Armstrong won a seventh consecutive time. Not just impressive as the most anyone has won the race was five times. I drove down to Paris taking my Dad as co-pilot and Mum as navigator, thankfully I know where Paris is as Mum slept and read all the way down and on the way back. We stayed with Mum and Dad's friends Robert and Christiane in Livry-Gargan.
The Sunday was spent on the Champs Elysées from 11am until gone 7pm, mostly so we could reserve a space by the barrier so there wouldn't need to use too much elbow shoving later in the day as it got really busy. The race itself was good, (so I heard) but I knew that we wouldn't see much but we would see the peleton 8 times and see the parade laps at the end of the race. I have some footage from my camera and I'll get them on here as soon as possible.
