Thursday, January 5, 2012

Winter training camp

The New Year has started and the training now starts in earnest.

Luckily my regular business trips to California means I can get some serious training in despite it being the middle of winter. The current daytime temperature in the Bay area is between 18 and 22 degrees centigrade.

I arrived in San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon and immediately headed over to CyclePath bike rentals in San Mateo (http://www.cyclepathsm.com/rental.php).

I picked up a Leonard carbon racer and booked it out for 9 days and perused the awesome climbs of the surrounding hills.


Wednesday morning I was up before the crack of dawn, due to jet lag, and headed out. This is a golden opportunity to put in some mileage every day for a week and a half. On top of that there are some fantastic hill climbs all around the area.

On Thursday I tackled Ralston Avenue (Cat 4 climb) and an exhilarating descent down Crystal Springs Road - all before breakfast.

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