Nutritional: Since RideLondon I appear to be on the seefood diet. Yep, I see food and I eat it... I've often heard of Olympic athletes who, proudly wearing their gold medal round their necks, proclaim that they're going to let their hair down and have a slice of pizza. Or go to Nando's. I've done the 'medal round the neck' thing:
And I"ve since had the chocolate cake, the meringue, quite a bit of celebratory fizz, some celebratory un-fizz, gin cocktails, cake pops (had to taste test) and a bit more fizz.
Altitude: I spent a good part of yesterday up a step ladder putting up bunting at the local village hall for the party of a friend of Lovely Lou. I know it's not exactly VERY high altitude, but you'd be surprised at the muscles involved in balancing on a step ladder whilst fixing bunting. No, really, you would...
Stamina: At same said party, nearly 5 hours in the kitchen washing up. Again, you'd be amazed at the muscles involved. This also involved cross-referencing my training plan to 'nutritional' (see above) as rosé wine was involved, thanks to Lovely Lou. Although having consumed sufficient quantities of the rosé wine, I'm not sure I could safely have said 'cross-referencing' without a bit of a hiccup...
Warm weather: The Melodeon Master will insist on calling this a 'holiday' where I prefer to think of it as 'warm weather training'. However, this year, after my efforts on RideLondon and the vast quantities of all the wrong kinds of foods consumed since, I'm inclined to agree with him, have a lovely time and worry about training when I get home again. However, the first hotel we're staying at is in a remote area near a beach (triathlon swim training?) and we can hire bicycles to cycle to the nearest town if we feel energetic. Although as my limit seems to be 86 miles it may depend how lively we feel.
Apparently it's nearly a mile away...
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