So I've been kinda keeping it quiet for a while now but after another winter of discontent (mud, mud, mud), and some experimenting with a singlespeed I finally decided to dabble with the dark side and build myself a road bike. So after a lot of internet shopping I managed to put myself together this little beauty! Once I had her out on the open road there was no going back. I got myself a gimp suit (a nice gay little lycra roadie outfit), joined the local cycling club (G.S. Henley), and can now be found flouncing around the Chilterns pretending I'm Lance and shouting at car drivers.
Next up I decided to enter the Evans King of the Downs Sportive. At 113 miles with 9000ft of climbing it was a fairly big ask for my first sportive but I'd rather fail at something hard than complete something easy. Anyway the sun shone (hottest day of the year so far!) and I managed to amble round in 7h 31mins coming 145th out of 619. I was fairly pleased for my first bash at this kind of thing.
A couple of days after the event we headed over to La Molina in the Pyrenees to continue working on our little project there. Amazingly Christian VandeVelde, the American Pro who rides for Garmin, was staying in the apartment next door to us! After breaking his collarbone only 2 weeks previously he was already back on the bike altitude training in preparation for the Tour de France. So all in all it's been a very busy and very gay roadie orientated past couple of months.
Not to worry though I haven't lost the plot completely. I'm off for a weeks mountain biking in the Sierras next week to get back to my roots.......
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