I should be knackered

After five weeks off a bike with a broken col­lar­bone, I finally got back on the road bike on Sat­urday, did the usual 30km ride and ended up a little stiff and sore. Monday morn­ing a quick 18km sprint up the only two hills around my house before work, left my shoulder aching, I found out the hard way I can’t climb out of the saddle in my cur­rent con­di­tion and a couple of jar­ring moments due to road­works did not help

So this morn­ing my bright idea was to com­mute to work, hey it is only 43.5km each way. Most of it on good quail­ity cyclepaths with a couple of diver­sions (caused by road­works) on busy roads and a nasty climb (for me) at the end. With the aid of a mild tail­wind, I man­aged it under 90 minutes, 4 minutes faster than my pre­vi­ous best and after a shower I am feel­ing good, I def­in­itely did not expect that way after not rid­ing for five weeks.

Still it is another five weeks or so before I can take my MTB (moun­tain bike) out again. So I will try and improve my over­all level of fit­ness, if I can sur­vive the ride home.

Tagged: cyc­ling

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