The evenings are getting longer, the flowers and the trees of Buckinghamshire are coming to their best, and the hedgerows are alive with the sound of birds. Green growth is bursting from the soul’s dead wood and like Badger I am ‘fidgety and wanting to be up and doing’. I can’t wait to get out to run at lunchtime to cycle after work or to get my hands in the soil of the garden.
Over the long weekend I was in Champagne with some friends but as soon as I returned I took the Holdsworth for a test ride from Bletchley via Stewkley to Wing’s magnificent Anglo-Saxon parish church. I was surprised how quickly I settled into the rhythm of the bike but I did note some areas for improvement. The bell got in the way of my knee when climbing. The set up of the toe clips left my ankles too close to the cranks and the front mech wouldn’t allow me to select the largest chain ring and the smallest cassette ring at the same time. All these are fixable and I am confident that the bike will be useable for L’Eroica.
I need to push my fitness levels up for Town and Gown on the 18th and for an upcoming sportif in Wales next month so I thought I’d see if I could push my record for Bletchley-Stewkley-Bletchley above an 18mph average. I took the Bianchi obviously and had a glorious ride out into the wind and back with the gradient and the thermals behind me. My reward was an average of 19.5mph and that wonderful feeling of deep muscle tiredness that speaks of performance improvement.
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