Having had a break from cycling whilst he focused on his Spring half marathons, Patrick returned to his trusty steed, Roberto, for a training ride today. This was no standard ride, it was Patrick’s first ride wearing clippy shoes to fix him to his pedals. After a tumble outside the garage, he managed to complete the rest of the ride uneventfully. He told a reporter “I’m sure they’ll be good when I know what I’m doing with them”.
A couple of day’s ago, Sue’s bike, Ruby, had been serviced by Big Dave at Banjo Cycles in Newbury. A silver service – nothing to do with fine dining, but fine nevertheless. She’d emerged with a new chain, cassette, brake blocks, cables and most importantly, new bright red handlebar tape (Ruby, not Sue!).
It was almost a pleasure, pedalling the 400ft up the Ridgeway as the gears moved effortlessly from one to the next. With the clock ticking to the beginning of 3 Peaks Ultra 4 CRUK, at least Ruby is in fine fettle to take on the training schedule. Sue and Patrick are not feeling quite as good!
So glad Ruby and Roberto are ready and raring to go – and just love Patrick’s new shoes!!
Well done Big Dave at Silver Banjo – Ruby looks like a thoroughbred.
Can hardly wait for the daily blog!!
Ruby is a thoroughbred , however her mount is currently feeling like an old nag. I’ve just returned from 42 miles and 2200ft of climbing and am aching everywhere. Still a long way to go to get to 90 miles and 6000ft of ascent. There’s only one thing for it now – a hot bath (sod the ice bath thing that real athletes go for!) with bubbles and my book and a few zzzzzs