Today has been a good day!
Trained this morning with Le Fasset and the Flying Dutchman - Nigel had a golf game and Mark has injured himself playing the devils sport (5-a-side). So the plan today was to do 2 laps of the Gloucester Triathlon bike course and then a 7km run.
The bike course was ok but took us through some streets which is not that much fun really - prefer the open road. Plus we did two laps which is soooo boring! On the second lap the Flying Dutchman and me managed to get away from Le Fassett and were working well together. The headwind meant that he would have struggled to catch us, when disaster.....puncture for Mr. Booy to the rear wheel. A quick change (er around 15minutes!!) and we were off again only Le Fassett had caught us up!
The rest of the route was without incident and in the home staright Le Fassett pulled away and was unreachable to claim the points for first back without a life or death sprint.
The run was very relaxed - the 7km chalked up in 35mins which is pretty slow for that distance. As we came down the home stretch i opened my legs and thought i had dropped Le Fassett. As i reached my hedge and was stopping my stopwatch and garmin he came thundering past me like a steam train - i nearly jumped out of my skin! Fortunately that meant he couldn't talk for a few minutes which was nice ;)
But, the best thing today has to be that my daughter, Amelie, is now cycling minus her stablisers! What a great moment. We went to Montpellier Park and she was cycling on the grass under her own steam with no problems! It has just clicked!! Great stuff - just needs to practice lots now!! Brilliant though and her smile when she did it was just the best :)
