Training Log Archive: 5122

Wharmcliffe xc, pretty gripy after last nights snow.

No time for snowboarding after nipping to Leeds, B&Q, sorting garage etc..still, Alps at end of February.

Also sorted road bike training week to Gran Canaria for later this month, £30 return, 19deg average temp...awesome.

6:45 rise for ride in peaks with Neal. Beautiful views in early light and a blanket of snow covering all still.

Pretty sketchy riding in places. Cafe in Hathersage to defrost fingers.

Night ride, again with Neal. Crosspool new way down to Rivelin, up to top and back round. Really careful riding as sheet ice everywhere.

X-mas ride with Peaty at Dalby Forest. All tracks with snow cover, but good ride with friends and had a good chat with the big lad himself. Awesome moment when I turned into some downhill single track, Peaty on my rear wheel and a deer stepped out in front of me, and ran off down the trail; chased it down the track, sliding between tree's at full pelt for 30 seconds or so, deer leaning over to make the turns and sliding, Peaty and I doing the same, sunlight beaming through the tree's.

Nice simple moment, but reminded me of all the fun you can have on pushbikes.

Didn't hydrate properly, and with it being so cold my quads cramped after a few hours, took me a good ten minutes to get rid. Need to work on lactic acid threshold/levels and/or remember to drink when riding, even if its not hot.