Iona at Peterborough Crit

Iona at Peterborough Crit

Thursday 14 March 2013

Training in Spain Day 6.

Today was almost as windy as yesterday and Karen had arranged to meet with her coach Garry Palmer who was riding with the Train in Spain camp.
We rode up the super highway to Castells into the wind before waiting for the group to catch us there.

Karen got in some leap frog practice while we waited!

We met the fast group in Castell's, and when we met them they were being motor paced up the hill.  The group pushed on over all the little rises and I found myself struggling to keep in contact.  Karen had no such problems and seemed to be flying.  I really struggled today up the climbs and think the distances this week are finally taking their toll!

We rode the reverse over one of the climbs we had done earlier in the week, over Confrides and Gueadalest..  At the bottom of Guadalest we met Vicky Ware who had ridden out to meet the group we were with.

By the time we returned to Parcent we rolled on a bit further back towards the coast with the group before heading back.  Think Karen just wanted to get her ride time and millage up to 5hrs again.

By far the hardest day today and hope to ride better tomorrow, no such problems for Karen tho who hung on to the bunch for a lot of the climbs for quiet some time!