Last Friday I traveled down to Bath for the second testing day with Cycling Plus magazine. It was a fantastic day - great to meet up with all the team & Joe, our coach. The previous test data was flawed due to the dodgy ticker so I was really keen to find out what would happen now that all is fixed. We started at 100w and increased 20w each passing minute until we couldn't go on anymore. It was hard work and I sounded like I was in labour at some points. I was really pleased with the results - Since March, I increased my power from 260W to 300W - that's the average I can keep up for 1 minute. We also saw a nice steady HR graph - HR increasing steadily with increasing power. My max HR was 169 - normal at last!
In the afternoon we whizzed up and down a foggy country lane for a few hours while Bob the photographer snapped away - a great laugh - and then on a long rambling drive in convoy to a country pub for a huge feast. We had to do the test fasted so we were absolutely ravenous by that stage.
Finally, a 2 hour drive back to Timperley, Pete Tong blasting on the radio and me reliving my yoof, raving away like I used to on a Friday night when I did actually have a social life.
