Week 2

It's been a poor week as far as training goes. Work has been killing me and I've been working crazy hours. Not good in the big scheme of things, and I'm going to have to turn it all around if I want to be far fitter and in a better place than where I am now.

I got out for a good ride early in the week, hitting an old favourite that I hadn't been to since July 2014, Clear Mountain. It's a beautiful place, with two 17-20% climbs on the eastern side, and 5 x 17% on the western. Either way it's extremely tough. A local cycling website says it's a "brutal climb" and I couldn't agree more, but the view from the top is superb.

After that the week "went to custard" as the Kiwi's would say, and I've accomplished sweet bugger all since. With all the work etc I've been as tired as hell.

This coming weekend, to finish off Week 2, I'm (hopefully if time and family commitments permit) going to do the Strava December Challenge,just to get some longer miles in the legs. Not sure of the route I'll take yet, depends on the weather and the conditions I guess.

Clear Mountain Resort looking north west towards Dayboro.

My ride to Clear Mountain

http://www.strava.com/activities/227592095

Like I said, the weather has been all over the place this week. We've had extreme temperatures, followed today by low temps and rain all day. Crazy. Here's a pic of the one of the weather radar images from this week.

I'll let you know how the weekend goes.