I've just spent a great couple of weekends in Bristol and the riding has been great despite the rain and nip in the air. Meeting up with Anna Fischer, Alli Holland, Rebecca Curley, Marianne Britten and Rachel Przybylski, occasional fantastic team mates, occasional nemisises depending on the race, was always going to be fun. After spending much of the summer with each other, almost every weekend since April in fact, we couldn't leave it until the race season started in April 2011 to meet up again so this was the first of many tours of the country to meet up and go riding I expect. The Severn Road Club hosted us on their Saturday ride into Wales, some good climbs, lovely riders and even better tea cakes in Abbey Wells. Tea cakes the size of pizzas! I never knew this kind of thing existed although I'm not happy I was teased about my disappointment to only get served one half of the tea cake. Sunday morning we were out again towards Cheddar Gorge. I'd love to do a hill climb up there, just my kind of slope.Now it's the end of November, I'm back into the routine of training after taking October easy to give myself some time to recover from the season and I'm absolutely loving long rides at the weekends and mid-week. I think before this Saturday I'm going to invest in leggings made out of some kind of weather stopping material and might even try out the suggestion I've recently heard of wrapping your feet in clingfilm to keep the cold out - I'll report back if it works!
