Today has been a nice at ease day for me today and I'm a bit bored of it now so I thought I'd write some more junk on my blog for you all to read....in truth it's more so to help me pass the time and to keep me away from the jar of nutella and candy cupboard that keeps calling my name!
Last night we had our team presentation and it was good to meet all of the riders or as they say in Dutch "Rensters" and for me to practice my minimal Dutch. The evening involved us putting our team kit on, having a few little snaps taken, being interviewed on stage one by one, another kit change, more snaps, change into normal clothes and then nattering away to everyone. All in all it was a good evening and I got to have a laugh with the new family and meet new people and practice my minimal Dutch...it's slowly improving. My housemate and team mate Kristina did threaten to push me off the stage and make a laughing stock of me in front of everyone, luckily however this never happened - perhaps she realised I didn't need to fall over for people to laugh at me as merely looking at me is enough to give people a good chuckle!
I've not done a lot today except for having a nice little pedal, a shower, eating some food and doing some Core work......I haven't done Core in a while and it hurt a lot, I was even shaking like a little leaf when doing my planks! If those of you reading don't know what Core work is then quite frankly you should be ashamed of yourselves. To enlighten you somewhat Core work is strengthening, beleive it or not, your Core muscles to help improve your posture and reduce the dreaded back ache....also a weak core makes for a weak person. So I thought as I have an easy day and time to kill I'll get back into the routine of doing my Core exercies and getting my ab and back muscles back so I'm all ready for the beach and bikini season (sorry if you were about to eat when you just read that sentence!) I'm also going to get back on with the flexibility training and see if I can get back to a level where I can touch my toes - currently I'm just about able to touch the top of my ankles (ankles, not kankles!) so I have a way to go yet.
Sunday I have another big race, Tielt-Winge.....it's another Lotto Cup race with a big field and 130 kilometres of pain! My aim for this race is to see if I can go better than Wednesday and try and finish the whole race and get a finishing position and get more confident in the bunch....and should I get dropped then fight like a dawg again to try and get back on. Now that the first race is done, the only nerves I have are excitement nerves so roll on Sunday and some more pain. And Veel Success (that's good luck in Dutch by the way) to all you choppers and choppettes starting your season off this Sunday wherever it may be!
Salut
No comments:
Post a Comment