mooleur

Good evening! I'm back! Great news, had a holiday (we went to watch the WRC in Wales) and now the legs are performing well. The rest seems to have done me the world of good as I've come back into it feeling smoother, more resilient and for some reason I'm now climbing like a boss. So back to it, time to knuckle down. It's the season to be raking in the miles and building on your fitness ready for the new season. There's just one thing getting in our way. It's just so damn cold!! So what are we going to do about it? This time last year I was entering my first winter as a cyclist. It was also my first winter in some time under 65kg... and in turn my first winter in a LONG time with less bodyfat than brains (and that's saying something). It's safe to admit that, last winter, I wasn't prepared. It was bitterly cold in London and being the tough boot from the Isle of Man that I was, I reckoned to surviving on my feeble stock of jerseys, arm warmers a...

It's winter, at least it feels like it, so I'm going to try and post a little more often. Firstly, sorry about last weeks rant, it needed to come out. Hopefully it didn't stir from the main point which is to just ride, screw everything else! I did say I was going to do some geeky winter gear posts which are on their way, not this week, though. This week I want to roughly revisit an old subject. Some of you may remember me going on about the need to rest. Now, this post isn't more nagging because I'm sure you all know as well as I do how important the easy days are. This post is more a vent of frustration (I'm getting good at these aren't I), not over the fact that I'm tired, or that I need to rest - I've been doing both rather successfully. I'll start from the top; During August, while both racing and riding in sportives and the like, I noticed a change. The weeks surrounding the London to Paris were some of the best weeks in terms of fi...