Day 10 Training Day

I woke up to a forecast of a wet day, 100% chance of rain all day!

I wanted to do a couple of hours and 3 x 3 minute threshold intervals and a couple of full on sprints. Boy are weather forecasters rubbish at their jobs. I was dry all morning and the sun came out when I cleaned my bike this afternoon.

What the problem here is for me at least, since I don't know the roads, is finding a stretch of road to do intervals of any length. If I start a 3 minute interval at threshold just outside one village I would be into the next before I finished and its really not sensible to thunder up the inside of parked cars with shops and shoppers dotting in and out, riding defensively is best. I did find a new stretch of road which served a treat. There must be places I'm sure but to do the 20 minute intervals I have been doing to punt my FTP up, would be very difficult.

So all in all a very restful day, perfect with a race tomorrow, which I believe has a hill in it, not my favourite but a hard race won't hurt me at this stage, unfortunately the weather forecasters are saying wind and rain again, I will settle for just wind.

I spent the afternoon watching the tour, I was happy to see Hausler win the stage and I know it was wet but when are the 'heads' going to start racing? it's so boring. I think the course isn't tough enough and the team time trial has played right for Astana, not my favourite team I must say. Although I am sorry for poor Levi, going out like that is never good, not that he could ever be accused of 'making' the race.

I was interested to read that Armstrong has said the the race is now between he and Contador, I guess he hopes it comes down to the TT, he has been known to turn in a good one from time to time, I might be asleep if they don't start racing before then!