Miles last week : 176 (176 road, 0 indoor)
Weight : 14st 10.0lbs (-3.6 lbs)
Body fat : 26.4% (-0.1%)
Tantia body type 2 (obese)
Out five times this week, including one trip to London of 50 miles. Extra mileage and being a little bit more sensible with the food resulted in a big weight saving... that's more like it!
Sunday saw me, Rupert and Paul atempt our very own mini Tour D'Etape. 75 mile course taking in Leith and B
ox hills (that's not any of us in the photo, but it is Leith Hill). A glorious sunny morning we headed off at 8.30 hoping to be back for lunch around 2ish. First 10 miles at a frisky pace of 19.5mph - were we writing cheques we later could not cash?, asked Paul. Unfortunately, a puncture for me after another 5 miles meant an unenforced stop - still we decided we should practice team puncture repair drills like formula one teams.Some more fast riding down to Cranleigh and soon we were at the foot of Leith Hill after 26 miles. Paul and Rupert headed off in front of me in their own little race whilst I established my own, slower, rythm. Good ride up, unfortunately some ominous thunder on the way.When I got to the pub at the top where we were meant to meet - there was no sign of the others. And then the heavens opened for an enourmous thunderstorm.
I assumed they had taken a wrong turn at the top and were heading back down, so I followed them in driving rain. No wet weather gear so I was suffering and very cold, plus no signal on our phones.
When we finally met up we were drenched and cold so decided to abandon the ride and head home... absolute misery coming off that hill in driving freezing rain and we stopped at the first pub we came across for some shelter. Our bad luck was to continue as we stumbled across The Kings Arms, Ockley. Everything bad about a Surrey pub... every table laid out for lunch, notice in the window saying 'this is a lounge bar, please dress appropriately'. Poor Eastern European barmaid served us three pints and before we could get them to our lips a dragon of a landlady appeared and screamed at her that she could not serve beer until 12.. a Basil Fawlty episode then ensued with the poor girl having no idea why.
2 comments:
well what a week - lucky btard getting out. Ive been out a couple of times including a good hill - all in about 80 for the week. Just as a thought look at reachthebeach.org the same w/end just in case the 14k of climb was beginning to make you nervous. The weight no was impressive.
I am nervous after our little outing at the weekend - Leith Hill at just over a mile was just about dooable...
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