VC St Raphael Team Weekend

Okay, so I knew before we even started out on the Saturday ride of the team weekend that I wouldn't be doing the Sunday ride - I have taken the decision that it is too much for me at the moment to do a ride on Saturday AND a ride on Sunday as by Wednesday I am totally cream crackered!  Indeed, I now have some Vitamin D supplements from the doctor's (only took them 10 days to get them for me - what's that all about?) so once I have been on the loading dose for 12 weeks at a rate of 4 times the recommended daily amount, I may, just may, be getting somewhere!

Unfortunately, that doesn't help me now, which is somewhat frustrating.  I went along yesterday to the team training session, but managed a mere 12 miles at about 16 mph - I would've managed a few more miles probably apart from the fact that we stopped, and then everyone took off and I couldn't get back on again, as I still had my gloves off.  One thing did come out of it though - a broken mudguard.

The link to the route I did is below:

http://sportypal.com/Workouts/Details/908978

The only thing keeping me going at this point is that I was managing to keep up until we stopped, so hopefully in a couple of months when my deficiency isn't so deficient I might be okay.

Anyway, not to be put off, I have now entered two races - one is a road race on 17 April (50 miles - 11 times up a steep hill) and the other is a criterium/circuit race on 30 April.  Should be interesting!  I had a look at the RTTC website too, so I have noted a couple of 10 mile time trials in May, as well as the Track Masters in July.

And finally, to prove that I did attend the team training session yesterday, here's some photo evidence:

We have our Dress Down Day on Friday to raise money for the Deloitte Ride Across Britain, so fingers crossed that that goes well...