sunday morning.

sitting here this mornin thrying to digest the extremely tasty pasta nd pesto breakfast i've just shovelled down to get my through training today... yummy. Need to get used to pasta for breakfast again as it all kicks off very soon now!
looking out the window though isnt as nice as my gormet breakfast... rain! :-( o and quite a lot of wind.
whats on the agenda today... just a cheeky 6hr pedal push around the south east of england reeli! the legs feel like they have recovered from a bit of and epic yesterday... 5h 30 hilly being blown all over the road from start to finish. i went out with some of the local guys who are racing for the Ingear Cycling Development Squad this season... name and shame... the beasts that are Russell Shingles, Josh Cunningham, Jaco Ehlers and Jason Salter. What was meant to b a steady ride soon turned into the "sussex epic" as we headed off in pursuit of ditchling beacon... not really knowing how to get there and more importantly why we were even going to do it in the first place!!

so in the end we made it to the bottom and started to churn our way up. i took to my responsabilities and jumped on the front and kept a steady tempo pace while trying to chat to russell about how my unlubed chain was slowing me down ;-) when BANG ... something behind me explodes! i thought russ had slipped his chain so i carried on as i didnt fancy stopping on the stepped parts of this Alp like climb!! on reaching the top and waiting for the next one to come up, a see jaco gradually coming over the top with a bad look on his face... he had left his legs about 2/3rds of the way up it seemed! afta a little chat we realised russell had a bigger problem and headed back down to find the others huddled round russells new single speed as it was his ream mech which had snapped clean off! nice! afta a quick search to see if anyone had a spare rear-mech in their pockets... unfortunately not? we headed bak down and turned towards home and thankfully got a lift on the tailwind for most of the journey.

another gud day in the legs done then and now for today where im heading up to crawley to meet the lads again along with the rest of their team for a group ride before winding my way home alone.

on a random note, hav you had a look at www.twitter.com?
its a site where anyone can register and just post small updates as often as they like on what they are doing at that moment. Sounds slightly boring but its interesting to follow the likes of Lance and many more big names on what they are doing. sean pointed it out to me so it really is lance posting, not some sad wannabe. check it out, and if you register, add me and we can follow each other too!!

ok, time to get out there nd get blown away! hope you're all heading out today whatever the weather... what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger... or something stoopid like that!

nice one, catch up soon,

Tom

o and i leave a week tomorrow!!!!! getting excited now!

au revoir mes amis