Summer early evening rides ...... a fantastic time to ride your bike as you race along country roads, greenery everywhere. A time of day that you share the countryside with a few million insects flying the opposite way. Someone needs to send these flys to flight school and tell them to fly on the left. That way we could avoid the air accidents and near misses.
Last night I was determined to get a brick session done. Thats twice around the 8 mile 'Ballbuster' loop and then a 9km run. Powered by 4 macaroons and a Hornet Juice. The bike route comes back up Boxhill twice, and its not the climb thats the problem its the speed or lack of speed at which I do it. But last night not having ridden 30 odd miles before reaching the hill I climbed it a bit better. In fact I felt better on the second climb, was this the HJ kicking in? Still I felt good throughout the ride, and my heartrate was good and low as well.
I came off the bike and straight into a run. My legs felt like jelly at first, but soon became running legs. Hopefully as I do more of these bricks this will improve and by September I will be OK for the triathlon. After 45 minutes running I felt good, and still had energy to go. Thats the second time I have felt good towards the end of a run and both times I have used HJ.
