As I’m sure many of you are aware I’m currently staying at
CHS (@cycling_holiday), for the third year running, with Andy Leigh
(@andyleigh95). We’ve been here for a week now and have got some fantastic
training in the legs in preparation for the 2015 season in Belgium racing for
Team Handi-ness, which is finally starting to feel as though it’s just around
the corner.
While on the subject of this coming season I’d like to take
the opportunity again to thank both the Dave Rayner Fund (@DaveRaynerFund) and
Pedal Potential (@Pedalpotential) for providing me with financial support for
2015. The Rayner Fund are well known for having helped riders such as Millar,
Stannard, Dan-the boss-Lloyd and Yates to the very top tier of professional
cycling while Pedal Potential are a fairly new organisation but one that shares a similar aim. To be funded by both which are supporting some incredible talent
in 2015 is an enormous honour.
Somewhere in-between Manchester and Alicante I picked up
some terrible Karma. I’ve managed to have three punctures, had to change a rear
mech, swap blocks, watch all my bearings fall out of my headset and snap a
chain (too much power obviously). Normally I’d be annoyed by all this but the
very laid back approach to life that the Spanish have to everything seems to be
rubbing off on me, how there are not more car crashes in this country I do not
know.
After a rest day that's involved shooting hoops and strolling round a mall (not your usual rest day antics) Andy and I are back putting in the hard work tomorrow. I'm hoping to get another post done before we leave, thanks for reading and I hope you're all having a good new year, oh and if you're in the UK watch out for that ice,
TB
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| early morning easyjet |
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| "oh look, more sunshine" |
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| All that French I've been practicing and all I could manage was"bonjour, erm picture? s'il vous plait" |
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| Team Handi-ness kit, very smart. |
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| At the top of Val D'ebo |
