Week ending 20/2/16

TThis week is all about the track race on Sunday.

On Monday I did about 3.5 hours on my mini bike just mucking around and having fun. Then I did some gym exercises in the evening.

Tuesday I was in Leicester for the later part of the day but got back in time to go to rugby to do the roller session which I did on my track bike this week.

My mum allowed me to ride my mini bike in the house on Wednesday and I put drops on it!

On Thursday I did my last hard roller session of the week. I did 4 ten second sprints every minute. Then I did 4 thirty second efforts every 2.5 minutes then repeated the first set and got up to 39.8 mph.

We had a big mechanical issue on Friday with my mums bike because her rear derailleur fell of but luckily we where only about 400m from the best cafe that I've ever been to. We where there for an hour before my dad brought my mums other bike so we could ride home.

Saturday was all about preparing for my first race of the season. I had a lie in until 12:00 then I went on my rollers at half past and did fast pedalling and skill based effort to get me in good shape for Sunday. Then I cleaned my bike and got my bag packed before going to bed at 9 PM.

On Sunday I woke up at 6:45 had some porridge then we set off to the track and we got to the track at 8 so I could get ready for the race. In the race I was top five or six in every race apart from one where I was second. I felt it could have gone a little bit better but overall pretty pleased.

Week ending 14/2/16

On Monday I did a few new exercises that my dad got shown.

Tuesday was the rollers at rugby and we did 3 ten minute blocks followed by 3 three minute blocks.

On Wednesday I had a night off because I got a bit of a blocked nose.

On Thursday Ed and Harry come to our house for a hard roller session, we did 4x3 minute efforts which I felt could have been made harder because we did the effort based on cadence rather than speed and cadence and although I was in my second biggest gear they could have been a bit harder. Then we did 5 ten second sprints which I did 36 mph in all of them. Finally we did a roller quiz which is something my dad makes in his lunch break at work, Ed gets me really annoyed in these because he sometimes cheats and sometimes steals my answers and says them quicker than me.

I did an easy ride on my rollers on Friday because I had a hard weekend ahead.

Saturday I did a ride that left from market bosworth and we did 36 miles but in the middle of it i found it really hard because I didn't know where we where.

Sunday was the second team ride and it started from Geoffs house in Ilkeston. We did 30 mins out to Harvey haden and did some skills stuff on there in preparation for the regional champs in June. We did lead outs and we did gap jumping with a bit of cornering technique at the end. After that we rode the long way back to Geoffs house, I was struggling a bit near the end of the middle section so me, Lotta and harry avoided a steep hill and we met up at the other side. At the end we got the older riders to help us three out and that was a really big help so thank you for the help. When we got back to Geoff and Josh's house we had lots of food including 75 sausage rolls between us. I had a look at my garmin on the way home and it said we did 1 kilometre of climbing today and we did 52.5 miles altogether.

Week ending 7/2/16

Monday I did my usual gym work focusing on the core for better stability on the bike.

On Tuesday night I went to rugby to do the roller session me and Ed do but I did a round of "to batters" which is five seconds on five off for two minutes then twenty on ten off for two minutes and that took a lot out of me so after that I did one minute efforts instead of two minutes.

On Wednesday I did a recovery ride to get me ready for Thursday's session.

The threshold test was on Thursday night and we had invited Ed and Harry fears over to our house and josh was on oovoo with us. I managed to do a time of 11 minutes and 7 seconds for the five miles but it wasn't that simple because my garmin sensors kept playing up so my dad told my to just ride for 11 mins. So after that we sat down and got some of my dads training software and we managed to work out that the average speed was around 27 mph so dad did some calculations and found that I did it in 11 mins 7 secs.

Friday I did another pretty hard training session but this time for a cause, I wanted a pukka pie for tea so my dad said if I get over 40 mph then I could have one. I didn't get there but I did nine at above 36 mph so I got one.

On Saturday I didn't do anything because of the weather.

We went to Coventry on Sunday to do a reliability ride that was about 55 miles long and there was three floods on root and a lot of steep climbs to get up, there was a really steep one about 30 miles in and I struggled a lot in that one.

Saturday 23rd club event

On Saturday we all went to middle bike fit to do lots of different things including getting the team kit and hoodies and getting a 30 minute bike fit from Dan who rides for the adult racing section himself. At the start we all sat down and went threw a slide show about the academy and its expectations, then we got the kit and hoodies.I had the bike fit first so I went to put the kit on and get my bike so we could put it in the turbo where the bike fit was. we made a few changes to the saddle height and handlebar position but no major problems. Then I had practicals with Jim where we realigned the gears and swapped an innertube. Third I had and discussion with Geoff about my plans for the year and how we can achieve the goals I set out in November to December time and I'm ok with others seeing those plans. Next I had photos taken on the bike in racing kit that was made by VELOTECH, off the bike in racing kit and off the bike in the hoodies given to us by BFM. After that we had a lunch break where we went through a bit more of the slideshow. Later we went back to our activities were me and Jack Brough did another practical focusing more on the gear realignment than the innertube changing. Then me, Owen and max did a tactical skill session with Geoff and we watched videos of spring classics and one day races where good and bad tactics were shown by the best riders and teams in the world. The penultimate rotation was a practical again and this time there was a lot of us doing it so we got into pairs and did an innertube changing race. Finally we did the last bit of the slideshow, collect our goody bag put together by Geoff and Mick so thank you to them and also thank you to Dan for giving us all a free bike fit and letting us use your workshop for the whole day. Thank you to my dad for organising this as well and thank you to Jim for doing the practicals and to Caroline Mansfield after Neil was ill on the day she filled in for what Neil was meant to do.

     Thank you to all the supporters of this MI racing academy for making this happen.