by I’ve been out for a couple of rides in the last week – at the weekend I did a few Strava segments, one a ‘TT’, one a longish flat segment and one a short steep hill. The aim was to see how far away from my peak I am, and the news is not too bad – one the TT segment (6.1km) I was 40s off my best, albeit with an unhelpful strong headwind in one direction, and the other two segments were a few seconds off. My legs are feeling better than they have done since my century in May and hopefully will continue to improve.
The TDF is all ready to go now (headset has been replaced, I’ll post about this in the future) and so I’m planning to go back to basics and do some base training and hopefully next year will be a bit more successful!