Practice and Gates done.

Got up at 6 this morning and went to the Bristol track and got an hour of training in early.

I didn't have time to practice jumping this morning and only had time to do 2 x 50% warmup laps followed by 5 x 90% full track laps with 10 minutes rest in between.

I managed to get to the last straight before my legs turned to mush this morning which is better than before so I am improving slowly.

I had my phone in my pocket and timed the laps with Strava. My lap times were as follows:

My lap times were as follows:

0:39
0:41
0:39
0:39
0:37

As you can see I was pretty consistent and according to Strava I have the 5th best time on the track although I am 10 seconds behind the first place person!

Also of the top five times I was 3 miles an hour faster than any of the other athletes with a top speed of 22.2mph so not bad.

At 10:30 I went to the track in bath and did an hour and a half of gate practice.

The 41x17 gearing is working better as I kept up with a National racer this morning who was clipped in. He also helped me with keeping peddling until the jump by scratching a line just before the first jump to peddle to before stopping peddling which helped loads.

Tomorrow in the race I am going to try and imagine the line on the track and see if this stops me getting over taken by the first jump.

I am now going to relax and eat a load of carbs ready for the race tomorrow.