2nd League event of the season. A fast flat one up the West Coast Road to Atlantis and back to Table View. Despite only managing about 5 hours of training per week for the last few weeks I wasn’t feeling too bad and didn’t have any problems with the pace. I tried to stay up front to keep out of trouble in case of any splits.

But it ended up staying together the whole way. Then about 500m from the finish a truck turned right into the sprinting bunch. How no-one went down is a mystery. Robby unfortunately didn’t get good position into the finale and finished a few places down.

Another Tandem League event today. Only 5 racing tandems at the start and we shelled Patrick Gaertner and son Nick within 25kms. Robby and Peter were clearly the strong ones, and they put in repeated attacks of which we countered all.

Something had to give somewhere, since Robby & Peter and ourselves were the ones doing the most work. Eventually the other 2 tandems couldn’t match the pace on a hill, and the two BikeMax tandems went clear. Then through a slip of concentration we let them get the jump on us, and we couldn’t close the gap.

So Robby & Peter took 1st, with myself and Uwe at 45 seconds. Hard work, but I seem to be getting used to the position on the bike, as I’m definitely less sore after this one than 2 weeks ago.

Got my Cape Epic Race DVD in the post today and watched it over dinner. The coverage of the race at the front was excellent, and I think it may have triggered some training motivation somewhere inside of me. Watching the action has definitely got me thinking about needing to get fit again, and getting out on the mountain bike some more.

It’s been a bit of a bummer without a proper training partner since Kevin decided to take winter off, but now that the racing season is in full swing again I feel the urge to get out again and clock up some big hours. Its been a bit stressful at work lately – we’ve been extremely busy – so the training has suffered a bit and have had quite a few weeks with not quite enough training hours. Hopefully I can shake that habit now and get some miles in my legs again :)