Bike Fitting, Dragons and Check Up.

Busy week this week, or rather a busy two days.

As part of our team training plan we had decided to enter a number of UK based Sportives to hone our skills and test the legs. The first event we all entered is the Mad March Hare, which is based in the Midlands, unsurprisingly in March. This is a relatively straight forward route, being mainly flat with a couple of Cotswold climbs in the middle. The second event is the Cheshire Cat, which I have decided not to enter, as this is at the end of March and involves a lot more climbing, but my training will not have progressed far enough at this point. The final sportive we had intended to enter as a team was the Dragon Ride at the beginning of June. Entries for this opened at 9am on Wednesday morning and were sold out in 2 hours. Unfortunately, due to various reasons (which we won't mention), only Steve, Nick and myself currently have confirmed entries. Hopefully Gav and Simon will be successful in the ballot process.

Thursday was spent at Birmingham Children's Hospital having Kirsten's 3 month Post Op check. The upshot of which is that she will have to have another less serious operation in March to correct a restriction in the artery to her right lung, which is causing back flow of blood in her heart. We had been aware that there was a slight restriction after her operation, but, there had never been any mention that there may have been a need to correct this. So all in all we had a pretty rough afternoon coming to terms with this.

Thursday evening we had a team bike fitting session at the Jefferies Cycle Shop (aka Steve's garage), where I have to say customer service is king. So, hopefully we are all, now, seated correctly. We had to resort to the low tech solution (protractor and plumb line), as, unfortunately there wasn't enough light for the slow motion video. We can keep that for next time.

We are trying to plan a team social ride, but, it is proving difficult to find a time that fits around family, work and social commitments for everyone, so, we may have to resort to more than one ride.