So having had my early 2013 largely wrecked due to illness and A-Levels (it was worth it, I got into Loughborough), I've been facing the predicament of how to get myself back up to top form. My usual attitude is to race myself into form- just sit in the bunch and slowly get stronger until I can be competitive. However this wasn't working- largely because I just couldn't sit with the field. In the last few rounds of Eelmoor I was being dropped within 20 minutes of the start- hardly ideal...
After a few more slightly disastrous races, I decided to re-evaluate; I was doing something wrong, and it needed to change. So I set new goals, all a month or more away, so I could focus on training and getting back into form.
The first of these was the Action Medical Research Surrey 100 sportive event- 100(ish) miles around Surrey. While not technically a race, I just needed to find something relatively challenging to give myself something to train towards, and that could give me a slight confidence boost. It was actually a lot harder than I anticipated, but I made it around in a bit under 6 hours which I was pretty happy with.
Having got that in my legs, I think I'm basically ready for a return to racing- the first of these will be the Surrey League 2/3 race at Parham Park this Saturday, followed by a 12 hour mountain bike relay race on the Sunday. After that, I'll have a few easy days before the Tour of Tidworth E12 race, and then the Surrey League TT champs, as well as a few other races. So all in all, I'm looking forward to getting back on the race bike and hopefully being competitive again- hopefully I can finish the season in style...
Pete
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