01 May, 2011

Hello there!!!
On the 10th of April my dad and I went to Majorca on a training camp for a week. As soon as we got there we made our bikes up and went on 50km ride.
The day after we did a very hard ride in the morning that went over the mountains and back down through an amazing valley, with the police behind us all the way down even though we were going over the speed limit!! In the afternoon we went to do about 25km that went up a steep hill with hill reps.
The day after we went to the NE end of the coast and found a light house cafe, I think it was called cap de Formentor and it felt like it was uphill all the way there and all the way back . It was just amazingly pretty!!!!
A few days later there was a time trial of 37km and I did it in 56:22 min
I met some really great guys including Lee Povey, and Alex and Jake from Rapha. We had a great but weird fiesta at Tolo's after the Time trial - weird because the cuban singer was crazy.
It was a great training camp and we had an awesome time.
Total km of 482 in a week.

Since then we have done the normal training sessions with the club and soma on on my own except this week I went on my 1st proper training camp in les Gets with all the best riders from the Region. We met and rode with 2 pros ( Rémi CUSIN from cofidis and Jérome COPPEL from Sojasun ). On the second day we did the col d'encrenaz and as soon as we got to the top an enormous storm arrived and the temperature dropped and we had to hide in a small chapel.
Dad decided that we could'nt all stay there so as he was the bravest adult he went all the way back to les Gets in the freezing cold to get the car. He came back an hour later and all 15 of us squeezed in. LOL !! We were all so cold by then; maybe a couple of the guys were close to becoming hypothermique.

Today I did the 1st race of the year and I came 4th (out of 47) on a flat course, so that favoured the big guys and I was very happy with my result. We did 10 laps of a 3.4 km course. On the 1st lap there was a big crash just next to me!! OUF On the 5th lap 2 guys got a break on their own. And then me and another rider caught them up on the 6th lap, So then just the 4 of us raced on our own with the peloton chasing behind. Unfortunately I tried to sprint too early and totally died 100m from the line and the others just beat me.

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