Cycling progress

I'm hoping the awful weather we have been experiencing over the past couple of months has finally gone away. That means I can get out on the MTB more often without having to clean it after every ride!

The one positive that has come out of the weather is the amount of road miles I have been putting in and the way it has helped my MTBing The past four weekends have seen rides of between 30 and 50 miles, which is a huge improvement on the 20 milers I used to put out when I first got the road bike. Since then I've adopted a more relaxed 'spinning' pedalling technique which at first was odd, but has now allowed me to conserve energy on hard climbs. Climbing speed has increased as well using this technique, and I'm capable of sitting at 12-13 mph on hard inclines now without pushing punishing gears.

A measure of my success is the couple of official and unofficial time trials I have done. The Charlotteville TT bought an unexpected time of 30mins 04 and I've managed to get my Box Hill climbing time down from 9 minutes to 8 minutes in a matter of weeks. All positive stuff.

Hopefully all this focus on the cycling will help my overall fitness in the long term. I just need to do some races!