Today was a half day at the high school so came home to play with the dogs at lunch time a bit, have a beer for lunch and then ride to my night job.

At the start line there were three guys at the traffic lights coming back from further up the river. They looked like they were in race mode so I let them go in front of me. Little did they know that I just had a beer for lunch. After watching them falter clipping into their Shimano pedals I hit down on my Speedplay ‘click’ and I was away and around them all in the first 20m. Not wanting to be passed by them after that display of speed I put my foot on the pedal and bolted away for a nice 12km TT. Never saw them again. By the time I hit the roads at the end of the river I had certainly burnt off any traces of alcohol in the system and would have passed any doping test had the police requested one.

That gave me more time to get to work so took the next 8km at a snails pace!

Work done I bolted home as well.

Today’s mileage: 38km
Yearly total: 546.52km
Daily average: 28.764210526315789473684210526316km
Daily average goal: 33.71km

Average is dropping!! Wednesday night sprints tomorrow and another half day at work. I need to do a long slow warm up tomorrow night. (With my new shoe covers that arrived today). They look a bit bulky and heavy. Supposed to be warm tomorrow as well. (was warm today too with an unusual Southerly blowing up the river).

For dinner.