Day 1

Ok, so I have a cunning plan……………


It is six weeks until 24 hours of exposure in which I will cheat and only do the 12hr event. There is a reason for my lack effort to pedal for another twelve hours apart from the fact it is insane, it is because I did the same race last year, so basically can I better myself this year?

I did an XC race yesterday, which was the first race of the season, and I have to say that it was definitely a shock to the system. The course was not my cup of tea to be honest; this is because I have never owned a BMX or 4X bike. It was simply a flat out time trial which took 01:42:02 for 5 lap’s and saw me 15mins behind the winner.

Am I happy?

Oh yes, my goal was not to get lapped and be consistent, so a big tick in the boxes for me. So back to plan, the next part of the plan is to have a coach. This is really great because now I have one. What is even better is that when I logged on to see what I am down for today this is what he has put down.

Hello Rob Bradley,
Your Workouts for Monday, February 20
#1:
Type: Day Off

Life just gets better……………………………………..

Midlands Series

Well its that time of year again. My first race of the year is on Sunday and I am pretty exited. I have entered the masters cat so I am not expecting to set the world on fire, this is because there are some really quick guys in the mix.

What I want to achieve though is to give a good account of myself, pedal hard and enjoy the pain. It will be ace to catch up with some mates and be part of what we ride, train and enjoy so much.

See ya there ................................

Exitement

Just a quick glance at my new bike. And some big news to come later about training, until then I will be admiring my new Kinesis creation.

Don't take this the wrong way

Got up this morning and set off to meet a mate to have a blast around Sherwood pines. The ride in was cool, I had my ipod on and every track selected by shuffle rocked.

I landed at pines and did a lap with John, and his ace dog called Toby, then set off on my own for a few more hours. Did five hours in total and loved it. Riding with mates is cool, but today I loved the isolation. The picture is the back end of Clipstone and as a local to Mansfield it is easy to put down where we live. This is backed up by the program 'coppers', but to be honest; there isn't that much up with our little mining town, just look at the picture.

Dalby Forest

A good weekend in many ways. I have just woke up to see a post on facebook that Andrew Cockburn and his wife Claire have just had their first child. All seems well and this is the third arrival in my circle of friends this last few weeks and all of them seem to be doing fine.

It is not easy having kids, but I must admit I am slightly jealous of that feeling of excitement and wonder of what the future might hold. If I am am honest I actually liked all the fuss people make of you at these times of your life.

Anyway my kids are currently harassing me for breakfast and the use of this computer that I am trying to write this blog on. Enjoy it guys while it lasts. Did a lap of Dalby forest though yesterday. I had great ride and enjoyed it but I do have a slight negative. This is because I backed out of worry gill, and crashed out twice attempting medusa. I think its a sign of age creeping up, I just switched off and you really must not when attempting silly things like that.

My mate Rob Upton flew down both, but he is young and I am not. I don't want to boost his ego too much but he really is going well. I also took delivery of some new team kit after swinging by sherwoodpines cycles. I am going to focus more this year on me and my racing, but it does feel good to part of a team as well.

Cannock Chase

A cold start to the morning, -4 to be precise. Not to worry though because we have had a really mild run of weather so far and it did not matter because the sun was shining.

I have to say well done to the people at Chase Trails though, opinion is something mountain bikers are not shy to give out. My opinion is that these trails are fantastic, so there! PS sorry to the lad who desperately tried to move out of our way which ended in a crash, bless him.

Need to start bloging

Its a funny time of year, not really sure of what training to do, not really sure of what bike to race and not really motivated to anything bicycle related. What I have been doing though is riding, doing a few sessions on the turbo trainer and watch what everyone else is up to.

Most people it seems have got their teams sorted, sponsors and planned their season already. I am far from that point but I am sure things will come good. So I am off to do some e-mails to people to see if they can help me out this year, this racing lark is expensive you know!