On the back of a solid race last weekend, I've had a cracking week of training this week, despite some awful weather! Nearly 400 km of volume and some real intensity over the week. Two very solid TT intervals sessions on Tuesday and Thursday, two slow recovery rides Monday and Friday, one hard, Wednesday ride with Josh and the young riders and a 130 km ride on Saturday, with 65 km rolling at 29.5 km/h average then a race for the second half in the Ballarat Recreational Team Time Trial - 65 km averaging 35 km/h! Finished the week with the Sunday Mass ride with Josh and three others. 85 km all up, very solid but bent my chain when it dropped off the outside of the big ring, so a really very frustrating ride after that with the skip, skip, skip of the chain punctuating about every third pedal stroke - aaarrggghhh!
Next weekend is a race weekend for me at the Cashin Memorial race in Ballarat, which is another handicap, and I am hoping this is another good race under the belt before the Ballarat Masters. The Masters is a scratch race and competed for in age divisions, so I won't have to race all these 25 to 25 year old hot-shots for a change! Projecting forward, it feels as though I will be in good shape for next weekend, so it will be interesting to see if that is fulfilled in the race.
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