Training Diary

10/03/12
Lovely day for cycling the Notts countryside!

Distance - 50.57 miles

Time -3:30:08
Ave speed - 14.4
Top speed - 32.4

Fuel:

500ml CNP Prohydrate drink
500ml High5 Zero
1 x High 5 enery gels
2 x Mule energy bars

Pee stops: 5! - didn't prpoerly hydrate the day before so my system had a bit of a paddy!
Wildlife Watch:
Loads of skylarks (now I've got my ear in there seems to be one over every field.)
Plenty of lapwings.
2 bumblebee queens doing their thing.
2 kestrels and a pair of buzzards.

16/03/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles.
15/03/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles, 2 x 2 miles to & from tennis centre for an hour of tennis.
14/03/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles.
13/03/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles.2 x 2 miles to & from tennis centre for an hour of tennis.

12/03/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles.

10/03/12
Warmest Saturday of the year - dry too, bit foggy when I set off but all in all the best day for cycling so far in 2012:

Distance - 50.04 miles

Time -3:27:33
Ave speed - 14.4
Top speed - 35.8
Fuel:

500ml CNP Prohydrate drink
500ml High5 Zero Extreme
2 x High 5 enery gels
2 x Mule energy bars

Pee stops: 4

Wildlife Watch:
Another skylark - different spot this time.
Loads of nest-building rooks
2 jackdaws tumbling out of tree together while all their mates hopped and squawked about like schoolkids round a playground fight!

09/03/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles.
08/03/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles, 2 x 2 miles to & from tennis centre for an hour of tennis.
07/03/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles.
06/03/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles.2 x 2 miles to & from tennis centre for an hour of tennis.

05/03/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles.

04/03/12

Pouring rain which meant neither a long nor fast ride this weekend:

Distance - 12.23 miles

Time -0:49:12
Ave speed - 14.69
Top speed - 26.7
Fuel:

500ml CNP Prohydrate drink

Pee stops: 0
Wildlife Watch:

1 skylark - the same spot as last weekend so I assume it's the same one - still singing his heart out despite the downpour.

02/03/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles
01/03/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles, 2 x 2 miles to & from tennis centre for an hour of Cardio Tennis.
29/02/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles,

28/02/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles, 2 x 2 miles to & from tennis centre for an hour of tennis.

26/02/12
Distance - 24.83 miles

Time -1:33:02
Ave speed - 16.0
Top speed - 30.04
Fuel:

500ml CNP Prohydrate drink
500ml water
1x Mule energy gel
1x Mule energy bar

Pee stops: 1

Wildlife Watch:

2 buzzards. 1 skylark

25/02/12
Longest ride so far:

Distance - 41.32 miles

Time -2:45:15
Ave speed - 15.0
Top speed - 31.5

Fuel:

500ml CNP Prohydrate drink
500ml water
2x Mule energy gel

Pee stops: 4

Wildlife Watch:
4 buzzards. A pair of lapwings. A flock of 50-100 redwings and/or fieldfares (was going too fast to be any more specific!)

24/02/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles
23/02/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles
**22/02 - Been away without my bike for 5 days - back on it this weekend**
14/02/12 - Commute - 2 x 5 miles
13/02/12 - No cycling today - just an hour of tennis
12/02/12 - Finally warm enough to get back on the bike - but only for a quick blast - 1 hour, about 16 miles.

11/02/12- 45 minute spin session - hills and sprints

20 minute free-weight session - dead lifts and squats.
10/02/12 - 35 minute spin session
07/02/12 - No bike, still too much ice around so had to DRIVE to tennis (the shame!)
06/02/12 - 45 minute spin session - hills, sprints & power bursts
05/02/12 - 45 minute spin session with hills (Agony!)
35 minute spin session with sprints and power bursts.
10 minute row session.
03/02/12 - 35 minute spin session, 15 minute row session
30/01/12  - Commute - 2 x 5 miles
29/01/12 - 2 x 5 miles to the tennis centre for an hour of tennis.

28/01/12
Just a short ride this week so I could get back for the footy.

Distance - 25.51 miles

Time -1:43:31
Ave speed - 14.7
Top speed - 30.6

Fuel:

500ml CNP Prohydrate drink

Pee stops: 2

Wildlife Watch:
3 buzzards.
A lone cormorant perched by the side of a lake.

27/01/12 Commute - 2 x 5 miles
26/01/12 Commute - 2 x 5 miles
24/01/12 Commute - 2 x 5 miles, 2 x 2 miles to & from tennis centre for an hour of tennis.

21/01/12
Warmest weekend of the year so far but wet and windy.
No matter which option I took at a junction I seemed to always find myself cycling into the wind!

Distance - 36.8 miles

Time -2:36:24

Ave speed - 14.1

Top speed - 35.0

Fuel:

1000ml CNP Prohydrate drink

Mule energy gel

Pee stops: 2

Wildlife Watch:
1 kestrel
The flock of 100+ greylag geese - this time they were airborne, about a mile away from whereI saw them last week.

17/01/12 Commute - 2 x 5 miles, 2 x 2 miles to & from tennis centre for an hour of tennis.

15/01/12
Thankfully a couple of degrees warmer than yesterday, so less risk of ice.

Distance - 23.00 miles

Time - 1:31:24

Ave speed - 15.1

Top speed - 28.4

Fuel:

500 ml CNP Prohydrate drink

Mule energy gel

Pee stops: 1

Wildlife Watch:
Another flock of 100+ greylag geese - this time with a few canada geese in the mix.

14/01/12
COLD! Around 2 degrees, which means a risk of ice.

Distance - 38.49 miles

Time - 2:47:13

Ave speed - 13.8

Top speed - 28.8

Fuel:
500 ml CNP Prohydrate drink
500 ml High5 Zero drink
Mule energy bar
Mule energy gel
4 slices buttered malt loaf

Pee stops: 4!

Wildlife Watch:
A flock of around 125 Redwings. A flock of 110 greylag geese.

12/01/12 Commute - 2 x 5 miles, 35 minute spin session.
11/01/12 Commute - 2 x 5 miles
10/01/12 Commute - 2 x 5 miles, 2 x 2 miles to & from tennis centre for an hour of tennis.
09/01/12 Commute - 2 x 5 miles, 35 minute spin session including sprints and power bursts.

07/01/12
First proper ride of the year.
Not ideal weather for cycling, the temperature perked up a bit from last week to about 8 degrees but was still very windy so felt a lot colder. Thankfully the ground was dry for the most part - slippery road services are the cyclist's enemy.

Distance - 37.95 miles
Time - 2:42:07
Ave speed - 14.0
Top speed - 33.4

Fuel:
500 ml Viperactive carb drink
500 ml High5 carb drink
Mule energy bar
Mule flapjack
High5 gel

Pee stops: 1

Wildlife Watch:
3 kestrels, a buzzard, a green woodpecker, a meadow pippit and a flock of about 200 various gulls including some real monsters that I assume were great black-backed, or maybe just some big ass herrings!