Me on a bike!

Work kindly took some photos of me riding the bike to help with the promotion and sponsorship raising efforts. Although it was a very wet and windy day in the Chilton Hills near Beaconsfield the pictures came out really well.

Thanks to everyone at Affinti.

I am now back on the bike and have been out on Tursday and Friday this week for an hour each day. The knee feels okay, so I will be back in full training next week.

Stage 1 - Tour de France, July 1st 2007

Not content with doing 1 stage of the Tour de France this year I have entered the British Cyclosportive as training for the Etape. The Sportive is a major, unique event in the cyclosportive season, following the route of stage 1 of the Tour de France on its historic UK Grand Depart. The event will take up to 5000 riders on an epic 120 mile journey from beautiful and historic Greenwich out of London and through the Kent countryside to finish in Canterbury, in the shadow of the city’s ancient cathedral.

The route:

Click on the link below to see a flash animate of the route.

http://www.everydaycycling.com/assets/File/British%20Cyclosportive/FlashMap.swf

Point by point: Greenwich - Woolwich - Dartford - Gravesend - Rochester - Aylsford - Tonbridge - Royal Tunbridge Wells - Horsmonden - Sissinghurst - Tenterden – Stubb’s Cross - Port Lympne - Farthing Common - Canterbury

What a pain!

Knee injury hampers training progress

I have been off the bike for a week now due to a knee injury. On bank holiday Monday I feel off a bucking bronko at the local school fair and sprained my right medial collatral ligament; not good timing.

The pain and is starting to go and flexibility is retruning so I hope to get on the bike for a gentle 20-30 minute ride on this Monday and get a few visits in to the physiotherapist.

The good news is that Simon Jones (ex-Head Coach of British Cycling) who has been giving me advice and training schedules, is pleased with my level of fitness at this stage so a week off should not have a major physical impact, but mentally it is REALLY tough to not be out on the bike.