One More Rest Day - 26/10/17

Took one more rest day before I start training again for the weekend.

The rest has meant that my ribs are feeling good now so hopefully I can start pushing a little more to try and get some sort of fitness back for next months race.

This weekend I am going to focus on skills still and then next week I want to start doing circuits and manual training in the mornings before I go to work and then sprints in the evenings as it will be too dark in the evenings now to ride on the track after work. The other option is to go to the track in my lunch time to get the laps in still. Also next week I am going to try and go to Burnham on Tuesday and Thursday nights to get laps in on the track there and do gates as well.

Another Rest Day - 25/10/17.

Had another rest day today as I was still feeling sick.

I did get up and wash my bikes but that was all I did all day today.

Rest Day and Ill - 24/10/17

Had to take a rest day today as my left knee was sore and I was really tired. As the day wore on my stomach felt bad and I got Diarrhoea so I am glad that I didn't ride today.

I will see how I feel in the morning and make a decision if I take tomorrow off as well or not.

Matt Eaton Half Term Training - 23/10/17

Had training this afternoon with the Bath club coach Matt Eaton.

I used my Cruiser for most of the training and I found that I am really bad out of the gate on flats now :-) I kept lifting my feet off of the peddles all of the time!!!

It was a really good session and I have learnt that I really need to work on my manuals so I am going to spend a month focusing on manuals and then once I am better at them I will start with sprints and the other skills. We did a really good practice where we went half speed and tryed to manual the long tabletop on the 3rd straight and I was really really bad at it even though I can manual it at full speed. This showed that my technique is really off. For the rest of this week I am going to to pump laps followed by lots and lots of manual training on this tabletop followed by flat manuals in the carpark before I go home.

I am going to put flats on my 20" to use it to practice on as I am feeling more comfortable on it than the cruiser at the moment. I am going to take the Yess Cruiser to my parents house again tomorrow as I am not going to use it until next year.

This will also give me time to heal my ribs as they are obviously not totally healed yet before I start going hard with the sprints to get faster again.

Bristol Winter Series round one. 22/10/17

Went to Bristol track today to race in the first round of the Bristol Winter series.

Started off OK and I did a few laps to warm up then did gates. This is where it went wrong. I hit the gate on the first gate and went over the bars. Luckily all I did was graze my knee. I did 4 more gates at hit the gate every time!!!

In my first moto I hit the gate again but managed to stay on and finished second although my ribs were sore and I was knackered. The second moto I managed to gate well and won the race although I really hurt my ribs and was really tired and decided to call it a day so that I didn't agitate my ribs any more.

I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't race all the races as there were 2 national riders racing today and I finished just behind one hitting the gate in my first moto and I beat the other in my second moto. All made better by the fact that I was riding my 20" that I had only ridden for 3 days before racing.

I am resting up now as I have training tomorrow as long as my ribs are better.

In hind site it may have been better to have not raced today but you live and learn.

Ryan Stack training. 21/10/17

Went to Bath track this afternoon and did 3/4 of the Ryan Stack training before my ribs started to hurt and I had to stop riding before I hurt myself again.

I did the training on my 20" which is feeling really good and I can't wait to race it tomorrow. The new cranks, bars bottom bracket, stem and tyres have made the bike ride even better than it did before. It's a shame that it was so windy so it limited what we could do I the training.

I have just washed down the bike ready to race tomorrow a day I will put on the plate ready to race later today.

I am still deciding if I will race 30+ or f1 but at the moment I am leaning towards 30+ as my fitness is so bad.

Rest Day - 20/10/17

I a going to rest today as I have a really busy weekend of riding ahead and I woke up a bit sore so figured it was better to rest today than ruin the weekend.