Training so far.

I mentioned in my last blog that Friday was the start of a 3 day training block starting on Friday with a 2 hour hilly ride with 10 second hill sprints at the top of every climb.

I went out around 09:00am after provisionally sorting the route out in my head.I decided to go out on the Tadmarton road due to its rolling nature and the 2-3 good hills that they can provide.

I kept my H/R between 135-145 bpm on the flats but was scheduled to lift the effort on the hills to OBLA (164bpm) then with the crest of the climb in sight i have to put the gear in the 12 or 13 sprocket and sprint for the final 7-10 seconds.

This is quite a demanding session so the first proper climb of the day is the climb upto Tadmarton its self not so steep but quite long this went ok so decended the other side and started the long steepish climg upto Swacliffe.This was more challenging and i soon began to think i had bitten of more than could chew.

The next hill was the climb out of Brailes towards Lower Tysoe resonably long but not quite so steep i think the severity of Swacliffe made this feel a tad easier and my sprint effort was excellent.

Ever pushing on i rode to Lower Tysoe and sprinted the steep dig just before the village where i rode quite a long flat affair all the way through the Radway and took the back road to the intersection with the Warwick Road where camp hill awaited.

Up and over camp hill and attempted the sprint but its a 10% climb so it took me a bit to get the gear over but get the gear over i did and blasted right to the top. A hook left towards Avon Dassett and a turn right at the bad bend took me towards the British Waterways site at the bottom of Farthinghoe village.

Two more good climbs and 2 more sprints and i was back on the Southam road blasting back to Banbury.

Good session but next week i think i will drop down the hill at the Hanwell turn and use the climb past the Moon and Sixpence just to include one more climb which will make it a perfect session.