The training must start

We have 85 days until the start of this years Starfish Challenge, for those who have not started to to train best you get on the bike and quickly.

Luckily I have been training steadily for the last couple of months. In January myself and ten of my mates created the Ice Cream Challenge league which was designed to motivate us to ride together and challenge (in a friendly way) each other to eight races throughout the year. We have already had a number of races, some on road, some off road with some interesting results. This weekend we competed against each other in two teams of five in a time trial race, the A team made up of Andrew, Richie, Andre, Ivor and Clayton beat my team which included Mark, Luke, Pete and Nick. Ok they beat us be nearly two minutes but we all had fun.

So my training program will take a bit of a dive next week while I am away in the Transkei but hopefully I will be able to get in a run here and there. Once we are back it will be full on training for our next Ice Cream Challenge race on 27th July which is off road at the Illovo Eston Marathon.