TT

Well TT sounds tough and time trails in any shape or form are, you push, push,push like your having a baby and you have to keep goiing not matter the pain, til the baby comes out :) i have seen 4, so i have a little idea. (although clearly as i am a man i have no idea about real pain!) but a hill climb is probably extra special/tough and a hill climb like the leg ripping hill road in Drinagh is especially savage. It has 3 ramps and even a tiny bit of down hill, to try and get a rythm is impossible, it constant gear changing and up and down out of the saddle, in short its torture to race up. Every local rider i know who has raced up it feels like they have got a chest infection when they reach the top!
Anyway the other night i organised a TT on "the hill road" and cause it was wet and shitty only Simon 'i ride and run now' O Driscoll showed up, which was fine cause i would have rode up it just as hard on my own anyway but the company was nice to distract one from the iminent pain. I really focused on spinnning up the hill, instead of bulling the bike up as i did in the past and the result was a 5.54 in runners, which is roughly the same as the 5.39 i did in my carbon fancy shoes and loads of cycling in my legs last year. In short very satisfying, its so nice to have tangible bench marks, it kinda reassures you that what you are doing in training is working and you are going in the correct direction. Simon did a 8.18 and will smash that in a  few weeks with some tempo and redline riding in his legs. Did an hour 20 all in and twas a fine night out on a bicycle.

Probably will head to a local duathlon on Saturday next with Simon, it will be some more racing for my legs and mind ahead of the important races i have coming up in October.