Resurrection

Beautiful beyond belief, Savage beyond reason So on 12th May I "raced" UTS 50.  This turned out to be 56km, 13:26 of absolute torture.  Spent all day just ahead of the cutoffs in the most pain I've ever had. At 08:00 1200 of us set off up the Llanberis path to the summit of Snowden of the first time.  It was probably the hottest day of the year so far.  The initial climb of 1000m to the figure stone just short of the top took 1hr20.  I found this tough but manageable on the gravel path.  Parts of it were even runnable.  Then the fun started. The descent down the Pygg Trail was hard.  the day was heating up and the path was rocky and involved a lot of scrambling.  My right knee started playing up and quads and hamstrings were cramping so early in the day!  Eventually we passed the top of the Llanberis pass (Pen-y-pass) and made our way down into the valley to CP1.  I was only 35mins ahead of cutoff which was worrying.  I stupidl...

 Life's been a bit hectic recently.  Sold the business a couple of months ago.  Stayed on to work for Safic, which is a bit weird.  Struggling a bit with it mentally but hey ho. Training has been up and down a bit. Good start to the year.  Feb was shit after hurting my left knee.  March and April both good.  May - knee flared up again.   So I'm 7 days from UTS50 and have knee pain.  No idea if I can finish but I'll give it a go.  I've been here before haven't I...... Cycling is crap.  Not helped by the wettest spring I can remember. Swimming is worse.  Only been getting in the pool every one to two weeks for a session.  Time to ramp this up as OW season is starting and I have Outlaw in July!!