After track nationals I raced two more
time trials the next weekend, but apparently my recovery with viral
flu was not quite sufficient and the result was obvious. After that
weekend we decided to go back to basic training eyes on the coming up
track races. Training has been rather good and even today it is. I've
managed to pull out some pretty decent road rides and even better
track sessions.
Now I've been on a road trip for quite
a while (two weeks is a good guess from behind a glass of red wine).
It all started in Sweden: a stage race in Svanesund. How eventful was
that? Well, I'm not going to go to fully detailed analysis, but
provide a good list. I was penalised for riding on the wrong lane on
one lane street, pushed off the course in the criterium, challenged
by two Valmets in the TT, dropped my chain in the TT, almost collided
with another rider on my own side of the road in the TT and last but
not least abandoned the road stage due to heavy rain (wouldn't have
done that if I didn't have track season to look for). Yet, my form was okay - I was pretty careful with my pacing tactics and it was visible in results. Wattages were there in quite okay levels.
The we went to Gent for two days of
mega good track training. Ok, in between I had a pretty decent core
workout in Germany. We did maybe my best ever track sessions in Gent
before leaving for Newport, it was two times 20mins and then six time
2000m flying efforts. In Newport I had my graduation ceremony and
rode a kind of recovery ride around the old hoods. The university was good for me, and maybe I'll write about that a little later...
And now... I'm back in Belgium on the
long way home. Next stop is Wittenburg for some work stuff and then
finally home.
