Some Good Riding over Christmas.
After the last 10 days off from work its back to the office to earn some money. However I got in some great rides over the Christmas break, and clocked up about 350km’s in the 10 days that I had off. When you consider that Christmas Day and New Years was in there then its not too bad at all.
Iv set myself a goal of 4000 km for the year, theoretically I should do that pretty easy. But its always pretty hard to know how the year will pan out. Iv also set my self a goal of doing Norton Summit in sub 17 minuets. This goal wont be so easy, in actual fact im farily sure it will be impossible. Well it will be impossible if I only manage 4000 km’s this year. Iv only managed to crack 20 mins (19.45) once so iv got my work cut out for me. But I figure why not, it will give me something to aim for and you just never know.
There were 2 rides in particular over my holidays that are worth noting, the first was on Boxing Day. I got out with a few of my mates and we rode to Mt Lofty via Nortons, the reason it was of note was that Casey Stoner rode with us. He is generally only in Adelaide once a year and iv managed to get a ride in with him the last two years. He’s a ridiculous amount stronger on the bike than me but its good to sit on the wheel and learn as much as possible.
Shannon and I had another great ride out into the hills on some roads iv never ridden. We ventured out to Carey Gully, along Deviation Rd and finished up at Cudlee Creek via Lobethal. The girls met us for a coffee and some lunch at the Cudlee Cafe. It was only about 70km’s but was a superb ride.
After a quiet intense period of riding i spent the last 2 days off the bike. I noticed a small twinge in my knee on Sundays ride up Montacute so spent all day yesterday icing it. I plan to get back onto the bike before work tomorrow morning and make it a regular thing. Nothing long but 20 or 30k before work and trying to sit on my threshold the whole time should go a ways to getting some more power in the legs.
