BIG weekend

It was our biggest weekend yet as far as distances go. Saturday morning's ride to Shorncliffe saw Kirsty, Michelle and myself clock up around 90kms each with Emma hitting close to 100kms as she had the extra bit to and from her place. It's an excellent ride and the coffee at the Cafe on the Park where we stopped is worth the extra 10km from Nudgee. (Looking particularly at Jacque)

 Meanwhile, Cate decided to go on an adventure to Bracken Ridge. Apparently, the clue is in the title and there's a bloody big hill. It was a gruelling 40-50kms culminating in a face so red she wasn't sure if she was overheating or if she had really bad sunburn. (the former I think). AND unfortunately for Cate, she was the map holder for Sunday's big ride out to Nudgee so no backing out there - oh well!

The ride on Sunday saw the remainder of our (brisbane-based) group hit the big numbers - 70kms each! Congratulations go to Ruth who was still walking last night despite only having a couple of months' training under her belt.

So all in all, including our big rides, Cate's Bracken Ridge nightmare, a ride to Roma St. Parklands with the kids on Sunday (Kirsty, Michelle and I) and Bron zipping over to the village a few times a day, I think we did a collective weekend total of about 900kms!!

I feel like we've got this. All of us are on track and it's going really well! We've still got 3 and a half months before the ride so if we can keep the momentum going, we will have a really enjoyable ride.

So: May. According to the official RTCC handbook, the suggested weekly training hours are 9-10 spread over 2-4 rides. Kirsty has started doing 3 short weekday rides and one long one at the weekends which I think is a good model and gives us 3 complete rest days each week. I think a good strategy is for those 3 mid-week rides to comprise of one racing, one hills and one easy ride. Talking of hills, Mount Coot-tha is coming up. This Sunday at 6am you know you want to LETS DO IT!!!!

Then, mark in your diaries Sat May 25 and Sun May 26 where we are going to do a long ride (70kms+) on both days to see if we can do it back to back. Soccer/Netball mums perhaps you could either ride later on the Saturday or see if you can do a big one on the Monday?

That's all for now. Happy riding! xxx