- a local field
For the last week I’ve not ridden (actually not since I went to calshot velodrome last weekend- I’ll write about it later) and more recently the snow has stopped me.
The last week it has being snowing a bit but yesterday, snow was still on the ground, I went to the pool in Basingstoke. Just for a quick visit.
By 2.00 i’m done (and it is snowing very heavily), me and mum go to the car, go to the exit (now 3.00-the traffic is gridlocked), and then we get around the first roundabout (now 4.00), by 5.00 we are halfway round the eastrop roundabout outside festival place, after not moving for 1/2 an hour we decide i will get the train, i dash for the train: there’s someone at the ticket box thing with no idea how to work it i finally get a ticket, dast onto the train, thinking it will go, 10 minutes later (5.30) the speakers say “sorry for the delay, there is no driver” by nearly 6.00 we get on a another train (where i met some people i know) and by 6.30ish i get in hook and spend 1/2 an hour having a snowball fight, then i walk to the anchor in north warnbrough (over 2 miles) later; now with dad and my brother, i leave to get up my lane, helping other cars get up first, then one lady gave me £5 and i walk home (around another mile), back from my quick visit to Basingstoke at 8.00 pm
So today i went for a 4 mile walk: i was trying to at least keep active so a have some base for next season, where i took the above picture (sorry for the poor quality, i took it on my phone as i couldn’t find my charger for the camera. Later it was in the middle of the desk: How did it get there?). I also saw the Basingstoke canal frozen and almost 20cm of snow on the ground in some places.
During my ”short” visit to Basingstoke yesterday i got 220 Triathlon and there was a free calendar. I’m using it to plan training around events and it’s getting worrying, last year i had a week where i was riding 30/40 mile most days, this year that week is being taken up by a ski trip, but i wont have much time on the bike, but I’m planing more regular long rides to have that endurance, hopefully.
But on the upside i seem to have a good season’s racing planned. Now I need to be fit and fast enough to do well in the events.
