Day off

Have to take the day off today as I have to pickup my wife and son from the airport in London at 3pm so I am running around tidying the house ready for them to get back.

It is probably a good thing that I rest today as I am pretty sore still from the weekend so I could do with a rest. I was planning to take Thursday and Friday off to rest up for the race weekend bit I think I will just have Friday off and get a bit more practice in.

I plan to go to Bristol tomorrow early and get some more full laps in and then Thursday I will just do some laps at Bath track which is shorter.

I have to have a look at my back wheel tonight to get it aligned correctly ready to train tomorrow morning. I want to just ride the race bike this week to make sure I am totally used to it by the weekend although it feels like I have been riding it forever already. I am loving riding it and wish I had bought it a year ago instead of getting all of the second hand frames that I bought that didn't fit me very well. In the long run it would have been cheaper too.

The eBay auction for my thrill frame runs out at the weekend. If it doesn't sell I think I will build it up as my practice/ ride to work bike and sell the S&M frame as the Thrill was a lot more beat up than it looked in the pictures so I over paid for it and will have a hard time selling it were as the S&M was a really good buy so I will not loose anything on it.

Also the Thrill is shorter than the S&M so it is almost the same size as the Yess. It is also really beaten up so it doesn't attract the attention that the S&M does do I can leave it outside of work and not worry about it being stolen where as I really worry about the S&M.

I also bought a new helmet as chain reaction had a sale on the 100% carbon/Kevlar helmets and I had a further 10% off through British cycling which made the helmet the same price as the money I got for dog sitting last weekend so I thought why not.

Here is a link to the site.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/mobile/100-aircraft-dh-helmet-biturbo-blue/rp-prod136562

I got next day delivery on the helmet so that I made sure it was here for the weekend.

Just sold my Haro frame on eBay so I can start building up my savings again. I have added my S&M bruiser bars on eBay as well to get rid of them too as they are too high for me.