A Journey of a 1000 miles starts with a single step
Cycle Training for 3 Peaks, 2 Legs and a Bike
The Journey
HomeClimbing
Travel
Accident
Hospital
Recovery
Running
Headway
Fund Raising
3 Peaks, 2 Legs and a Bike
Recovery
Work AssistanceInitial Problems
Ongoing Problems
Recovery Diary
Fund Raising
Just GivingMedia and Press
Running
Event ResultsShort Events
Ultra Distance Events
Neolithic Marathon
High Peak Marathon
Pembroke Coast Path
Headway UK
Headway Swindon
Further Reading /
Inspirational books
Touching the Void
Joe Simpson
It's not about the Bike
Lance Armstrong
The Lore of Running
Tim Noakes
Because I had only got a road bike at the end of 2006, I had to get started on some serious cycle training.
My cycle training actually started in September 2006, when I took my newly acquired £50 second hand road bike out for a ride. This turned out to be a 110 mile ride to Cheddar Gorge and then around to Longleat House and back past the Westbury White Horse. Not bad for a first 'proper' ride.The winter curtailed my rides, but I bought a new Lemond Etape bike in January from Johns Bikes in Bath, for getting between the 3 Peaks.
In April, I started cycling into work once a week which is about 25 miles each way, but as the days got longer I extended my rides home, so was doing a 60-70 mile round trip a week.
On the days that I did not cycle into work I took my bike in and did rides of between 10 and 17 miles at lunchtime
I also started doing occasional Chippenham Wheeler Time Trials. Some of these were done as part of my cycle home from work.
At the end of April I did the White Horse Challenge with Chris. This is a 150km ride around some of the White Horses in Wiltshire, crossing into Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
In May I started to cycle into work twice a week, in fact from the beginning of April my cycling mileage was normally >100 miles/week.