Cycling

Published by Matt Polaine | Filed under

I am a 40-something Cat 4 Vet rider who likes a spread of MTB Enduros and Cross. I’d like to take on a Sportif sometime, but frankly the time to train is pretty difficult these days. I’ve tried TTing and basically I’m more long Sportif than speed freak on the road. As a result I have a full-sus Cannondale Scalpel 2000 for fast Cross / MTB events, not field Cross events, more Tour of the Cornfields type event. I am aspiring to some long distance Audax rides in 2008/9. I also own a first gen Giant TCR1 which is still going strong. I am not sure which bike to take for my trip to France this year, in an attempt to beat my PB up Mont Ventoux (see 2007 pic above), sub 2hrs from  Bedoin I hope. All captured by SportsDo.

I tend to train alone, given my many other time constraints, and friends and family only see me ride off and then return hours later. I could have been down the pub for all they know. I also get told that if I was KSI’ed by white-van-man, no-one could find me. Thanks to my wife’s fanstastic Christmas gift this year, these issues are solved!

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