Time moves on, dates change, but some things remain the same. My racing and travel calendar is morphing into a 2012 format, involving lessons learnt from previous years, but maintaining a strange penchant to return to suffering. Certainly each season is linked to the last – as previous performances and the desire to either prove […]
Archives for January 2012
Music to turn pedals by
I’m a big believer in music as a training tool. Obviously it isn’t useful when you’re riding in a group; although I have seen people attempting to contradict this by keeping their iPod on while in a chaingang. That’s not the chaingang for me. Also there are times when I’m out on a mountain bike […]
Training or tourism?
Each Christmas or shortly before is when I usually think of training as really starting. Before that, having had a break after the racing season, I normally just ride without much in the way of an objective other than turning the legs over and having some fun on the mountain bike. So Christmas is the […]