Podium!

Juanita takes 1st female and 3rd overall in the 3 peaks platinum course; ramon is 4th.

30kms in 5.15

The Three Peaks Trial

This Saturday ramon y juanita head of to Wales to take part in the Cardiff outdoor group's three peaks trial in Abergavenny.

They have opted for the platinum route.

17 miles and three peaks.

The Gore-tex Transalpine Run

This looks do-able with a bit of hiking training- here

Eight days like the Transalps and about 30kms a day running/hiking

Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross

Don't forget registration is July the 1st










Juanita insists that she is not entering, even though she has been seen riding a snazzy black and white Cannondale cyclo-cross bike around the north downs!!

Ibiza training camp

This year we did much more off-road as we’re now learning lots of routes and rights of way. Revelation of the week was riding with the Kandani club ride on Wednesday at 3.30. This was a fast paced training ride over pistas (what we’d call rough fireroads) and singletrack descents and climbs. They regroup after fast sections usually with the shout ‘falta gente’ roughly translated as people missing) The ride finished with a 40kph line out returning through the lanes. There is also a road ride on Tuesdays.

The next day we rode with Werner on a plano (flat) ride para las piernas(for the legs ie a recovery ride) We used this ride to practise some technical rock riding. Ibiza has a lot of rock pushed through the surface of trails; this is similar to slick rock in Moab. But, instead of a huge expanse, they are discrete islands 1 – 2 metres across usually with drop-offs into loose marbles, sand or a wheel size gap between them. Werner is a master of this stuff. Junita is willing estudiante.

The week couldn’t go by without nailing a few road climbs. Col de Cal Sant Vicent and col de Portinatx which we used for intervals.

So round 380km of good steady riding 'en las piernas'

Some pics: ibiza

Gorrick

Last week whilst we were in Ibiza, Pablo was getting more race miles into his legs at the super fun Crowthorne round of the Gorrick................................

"It was at the same place we raced a couple of years ago with a very slight change to the course. The corkscrew was still in there.
This time I was a bit more prepared but no more confident. I started at the back of the group but at least I was at the back of the bunch as we hit the singletrack, rather than being still back at the start just getting going.
I did have no warm up but I'm not sure how much of a difference it would have made. My laps were only about a minute different between slowest and quickest.
The course was all bone dry apart from one 100m section. This was of course a deep bog. Well a wet swamp at least. So we all got muddy. A deep wet muddy boggy swamp. Monster.
Out of 26 in category I was 17th which I was pleasantly surprised about. But I wasn't dead at the end and after two hours I could have carried on for another two at the same pace. So I haven't yet learnt death by speed. I need to be able to dig deeper. Then perhaps top fifteen. Although I would have caught the guy in 16th if he hadn't turned round and seen me as I was catching him."

Race Weight

Dan Empield, founder of Quintana Roo says this:

"The trick is to keep losing weight until your friends and family ask you if you've been sick: then you know you're within 10 pounds. if they start whispering to each other, wondering if you've got a serious illness, you're within 5. When they actually do an intervention, you're at race weight."

I think that's about right :-)

100km Enduro at Thetford

Was thinking of doing this on 7-8 April.....if I can work out how to enter:-O

Me and juanita were thinking of riding it together.

Online entry here: xc-racer

Trans Schwarzwald

The Mighty Dinsdale and KB are in!

They haven't appeared on the start list yet though.