Its been a while since I last did this. January 13th to be precise.
Following all the late season Cyclocross excitement, including a ride at The Nationals and some great (for me) form in the last couple of Eastern League races things kind of stopped for a bit.
Well, I kept on riding as you do at that time of year with little or no real purpose. The racing highlight of each weekend replaced with a Reliability Ride (or Liability Ride as my mate Martin calls them) here or there.
Once the clocks changed, that was it... The Evening 10s recommenced and I started hanging out with old blokes in laybys with pointy hats. They wear skinsuits too.
I pretty much spent my riding Spring and Summer time trialling. Most of the early autumn seems to be going that way too, despite the distant, faint call of the new Cyclocross season.
I like time trialling. I like it so much, I even bought a pointy hat this year. And a skinsuit.
Its simple. You don't have to pore over pages of results and relative placings to work out if you've had a good year. If you're going faster on the same courses and distances as last year or earlier in the season, you're having a good year.
Fortunately for me I have been. Also I break fewer things when I am time trialling.
