We flew in on Monday morning from the "red-eye" flight. Scariest landing I've ever had, as we it was in the middle of the worst storm in a while in the UK. I seriously thought the tip of the wing was going to hit the ground first when we hit surbulence very near the ground on landing. It certainly felt like the left wheel hit the groud before the right one which is unnerving at the speed 777s land.
I went straight to the office, so was not planning to train on monday night, but to sleep instead!
The plan was to train on Tuesday and Thursday. However, because I'd been away in NY for a week, things had stacked up a bit back in London, so I got home quite late on Tuesday. Things had similarly stacked up at home too; post, messages & Race For CHASE admin to catch up on. Hence I didn't train Tuesday after all.
Finally on Wednesday I got back on the bike, albeit 'only' a turbo session, but it felt great. I only did an hour (or just under 20 miles) but it was good to start racking the miles up again.
Given we have a 100 mile training ride on Saturday, and feeling tired again on Thursday, I decided not to train. It's going to be interesting to see how my lack of training translates to a lack of performance on Saturday. I heard that many of the other riders have already clocked up their first hundred miler.
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
New York New York
This week I had to go to New York on a business trip. Decided it would be nice to take Jules with me & stay the weekend.
The hotel had a gym, so the plan was to do some training in the evenings, and then possibly hire a bike on the weekend and go for a ride. A colleague from New York kindly found me a route going from New York up the Hudson River to Bear Mountain (by coincidence his name is David Wright which is the same as John's dad, one of our support team!).
On arriving in New York, I dilligently went to the hotel gym on monday night after a 12 hour day in the office (its always busier than I remember it being in NY). Unfortunately there was not a proper cycling machine; I'd just kind of assumed any hotel gym would have one! However there was a reclining one so I used that. I only did 45 minutes, and the machine said I'd gone 10 miles which seemed about right.
The rest of the week got even busier at work, and I had started to feel a bit bad about leaving Jules for so long in the day and then disappear in the evening too. Hence I didn't make it to the gym again until Saturday, where I did a full hour and 16 miles.
By this point I had decided not to do the Bear Mountain ride. Jules has been out in NY with me before, but we've never really spent the weekend there together, so we focussed our energy instead on shopping and seeing the sights!!!
26 miles this week....not good.
The hotel had a gym, so the plan was to do some training in the evenings, and then possibly hire a bike on the weekend and go for a ride. A colleague from New York kindly found me a route going from New York up the Hudson River to Bear Mountain (by coincidence his name is David Wright which is the same as John's dad, one of our support team!).
On arriving in New York, I dilligently went to the hotel gym on monday night after a 12 hour day in the office (its always busier than I remember it being in NY). Unfortunately there was not a proper cycling machine; I'd just kind of assumed any hotel gym would have one! However there was a reclining one so I used that. I only did 45 minutes, and the machine said I'd gone 10 miles which seemed about right.
The rest of the week got even busier at work, and I had started to feel a bit bad about leaving Jules for so long in the day and then disappear in the evening too. Hence I didn't make it to the gym again until Saturday, where I did a full hour and 16 miles.
By this point I had decided not to do the Bear Mountain ride. Jules has been out in NY with me before, but we've never really spent the weekend there together, so we focussed our energy instead on shopping and seeing the sights!!!
26 miles this week....not good.
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