Lanza Part 2

So after a bit of rain on Wednesday things got back to normal for Thursday and today with a BIG sun in the sky to get the tan lines back on track! Yesterday me and matt headed out for an awesome 5hr ride which pretty much took us on a complete tour of the island heading up north to get some nice long climbs in, where we bumped into 5 of the Rabobank fellas out doing what looked like hill reps… they were climbing a lot faster than us anyway. At the top of the climb clad in his Dutch national champs kit, looking the dogs nuts was Koos Moerenhout (spelling?!) just standing around shooting the sh1t with one of the DS’s I guess… lazy pros! So we soon dropped them and carried on turning down south and realising that since coming out the wind had picked up slightly, well a hellova lot actually! So there we were twatting it out side by side just trying to hold 10mph! Good times. Down the south of the island we caught some more good long climbs and looped back round to finish with about 20k’s of sweet tailwind to blow us back home and straight to the fridge to start stuffing our mouths in prep for tomorrow!

Wednesdays ride stats… 5h01 ; 88miles ; 5700 calories burnt ; 2100m of ascent ; 312 watts average (doesn’t mean much to me!)

After the epic day yesterday I stuffed myself silly and woke up this morning feeling wayyyy too bloated so I headed out for 1h15 before breakfast to burn off a bit of yesterdays grub. The weather wasn’t too bad I guess seeing as its 5inches of snow back home… at 9.45 this morning it was easily 20degrees in the sun!
I headed out again this afternoon with matt for a loop down to the National Park on the Island which is literally like riding through Mars, called Timanfaya Nt. Park. Sadly the clouds had moved in making it a bit cooler but this eve I think I still managed a bit of tan as my arms are steaming and red yet again! Good times.

Only 3days riding left out here before heading back home, and having seen photos from back home I’m not sure how much real training will be done given the amount of white stuff falling from the sky! Hopefully the flight will still be running!! I need to get back to finish off my Christmas shopping! Nothing like a last minute rush.

Right, I’m stealing internet here from the Germans living next door by picking up their wireless… the hitch is I can only pick up a good signal by sitting on their drive-way! I can hear some noises going on from their direction so best head off sharp-ish!

I’ll try and get a part 3 in before I leave, that’s if I’m not locked up in Lanza for wifi theft…

P.S. I’ll try get some snaps up too.