Been a little quiet recently.

Another pretty frustrating weekends racing not only for me but for the rest of my sigma team mates I imagine as well.

Was riding at the Rutland - Melton Cicleclassic and predictably I punctured. Strangely it happened on a main road section, the front wheel just went down (perhaps picking up something in the 1st off road section i had just got through). Unfortunately when I punctured the team car was miles off busy trying to overtake dropped riders so by the time it caught up I had no chance of getting back to the main group as was stuck with a group of dropped riders.

Just about everyone else in the Sigma team had their chances scuppered by untimely punctures, this wasn't helped much with the team car being drawn last in the convoy.

Pretty pissed off as fitness had actually felt pretty good going into it....

Had ridden a hard ride round Richmond park on my road bike as part of the bikeradar "3 lap challenge "on the wednesday before. I had averaged 25 mph for it on my road bike which was a new PB (in terms of power and time).

This had come off the back of a really hard week for me straight after the Thames Velo, which had left me feeling pretty shattered for a couple of days on the monday / tuesday last week. This "hard week" involved riding "tempo" (in watts terms 300+) for 3.5 hours on the tuesday after the thames velo race. I then did 2.5 hours followed by riding a local clubs 10 mile TT on my road bike (which I won) the day after that. I followed this with 6 x 5 minute intervals done flat out as part of a longish ride a couple of days after that. Tiring stuff!

With the next lot of races coming over the next weeks I just need to find some belief from somewhere that I can get a decent result in these major races to make all this effort feel worthwhile.

Next weekend is the Chas Messenger, a bit more local and hopefully wont be quite so unpredictable, this race also has a short flatish TT so I'd better dig my lo-pro bike out and fix it.