by I was feeling pretty good last week. I’d managed 100km in a week for the first time since May and was ready to kick on. My plan was to do 100k/week for the rest of the year to try and get up to 3,000km for the year. I’d done a fairly decent (for me) 56km ride and was feeling reasonably good.
However, I had a couple of sleepless nights and had to take the car for an MOT last week. I didn’t go for a ride at all other than to and from the garage. Things got worse on Thursday when I woke up. I had been planning a nice long ride but found myself out of breath. I seem to have picked up a cold and I have a pressing feeling on my chest and get out of breath every now and then. It’s still here now and is very frustrating, especially as the weekend was nice and sunny!
It seems unlikely I’m going to fulfil any of my ambitions for 2017. I can’t imagine I’ll be fit enough for one century let alone three. Despite the nice weekend it’s getting cooler now and I won’t be on the Ribble for much longer. I’ll have to swap the cadence meter and speedometer over to the Carrera TdF. One thing I am looking forward to is giving Zwift a go – I’ve finally got an ANT+ USB dongle so I can get it all set up.
World Championships – Sagan with the threepeat
I’m not even sure if threepeat is a word (probably not in British English anyway!) But Sagan inevitably won the sprint in yesterday’s men’s road race. It would have been nice for someone different to win it but Sagan has won it now on three different types of course. I doubt he’ll be in contention in the mountains next year but I wouldn’t write him off just yet! In years to come I think we’ll look back on Sagan and he’ll be considered a legend (if he isn’t already). He just needs maybe a couple more Monument wins to round off the palmares.