Time passes...

Where does all the time go? As usual, my planned (cycling) activities have taken a back seat for some altogether more important tasks, mainly work-related. On the plus side we are also creeping towards a house purchase which was agreed in principal at the end of last year (which means that I may just achieve one more of my 2010 goals, albeit a little late). We have also organised and run a school parents’ quiz, which was a lost of fun! I think the evening went really well, with the one or two obligatory hiccups, although these went largely unnoticed by most of the teams (partly due to the large quantities of alcohol involved).

I managed to get to Hillingdon again for one of the late Winter Series races a few weeks back. It was a return to the Hillingdon I know and do not love – windy, crowded, the predictable near-crash on the final corner, the almost-more-predictable placing in the middle of the bunch for yours truly. Why does Hillingdon suffer from such bad riding? I’m convinced that it is the fault of the circuit when run anti-clockwise that makes it so easy to hold on in the bunch and wait for the sprint.

Training is still ongoing, hampered slightly by a dodgy throat. Hopefully I’ll be fighting fit for the first road race of the year on the 6th March, although it’s the night after my wife’s birthday celebration so I may be feeling a little the worse for wear! Should be interesting…