I've put this off for too long. I had convinced myself that I would never be eloquent enough to write what I thought needed to be written about Nick. I've finally realised that others have expressed those words for me and the important thing now is to continue as Nick would have done which was always to give it 100% and find ways to push oneself even harder than last time.
For me this has manifested itself in my threshold training, I now do my 5 minute threshold intervals on Edge Hill. I had promised Nick that we would start doing several repeats of the Edge Hill ascent, 5 minutes up and 1 minute down and repeat. I'm now fulfilling that promise, I've done two sessions of 8 repeats in the last couple of weeks and I find solace in the thought that Nick would have enjoyed this session and the resulting bragging rights.
I raced the Victoria Park Criteriums last Saturday, this would have been Nick's first British Cycling Road Race. I rode the race as aggressively and as hard as I could albeit not the most tactical way. Nick would've seen my HR trace from the second race and would have seen it as a challenge to better it next time out (average 181bpm).
Nick's brother Chris is to join the team for the Maratona which is welcome news, I think he will enjoy it as much as his brother would have done.
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