The Training Diary

Over 23800ft and 300+ miles in three days. It’s good to know that I’ve got that in the back pocket so that I can pull it out when I need it at RAAM!

I drove up to Bristol on Friday night to crash at my sister’s for the weekend – trade off was that I was to feed her cats while she was away; Bargain.   Each day of the three day sportive started at Somerton;

Day 1 took us north along the lanes towards Bristol for 102 miles, total ascent 7,512ft. I had no idea what to expect but...

Weekend of the 8th of May saw Team Human Science assemble once again at the gates of Bush Park in Teddington. This weekend we were changing the usual long steady ride for something with a little more intensity. I had mapped a route that took us to mid-Wales where my parents live and we set off in pairs to replicate the one hour on - one hour off type of riding that we would be doing during RAAM.

Mark and Jon set the pace and rattled off the first 20 miles while Tom and I settled down in the c...

We awoke to rain, which soon turned into a full blown thunderstorm once we were about 5 miles outside Bridgenorth. At one point, the storm got so bad that we stopped and took cover under an old-style brick-built bus shelter (one of the new style shelters would have been useless, give the conditions). Fortunately, the storm soon abated and we pressed on, only pausing for a break to fix a puncture in Jon’s rear tyre (though how anything managed to pierce those things was a mystery to us all)....