After a few weeks of just going out for a ride at the weekend, I have decided to up the riding a bit.
i did a nice 35/40 mile ride along the coast on Sunday, and then decided to start semi-cycling to work.
I call it semi-cycling as I work 30 miles away and it is a very undulating route, I decided to cycle from home to St Leonard's station (17 miles), then get the train to Frant and cycle the remaining 3.5 miles to work in Tunbridge Wells, and obviously repeating it in reverse after my days work. From next week I plan on doing it a couple of days a week.
It was an eerie feeling cycling along a pitch black, un-lit road at 5:30 in the morning, even though I know the road very well I found myself slowing down as I knew there was a bend coming up but couldn't actually see it until I was practically on top of it.
As the ride in September includes cycling overnight to Dover, the more experience I can get cycling in conditions like that the better. Cycling on lit roads in the dark is fine, but when you hit unlit roads it is a whole new experience.
So now I have doubled the distance I am riding in a week. This is the thing with training carefully, you gradually lengthen the distance you ride and try to keep up the pace you set or improve it.
Still a long way to go, but I'm getting there.
Until next time.
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