The Big Eze is settling in, El and I are now remembering what it was like to have a small child to look after. We're more relaxed than last time but it's still exhausting, more so for El of course....but we are very pleased to have the boy Eze with us, he's simply spectacular. BUT to cycling matters and last night I managed to put the CycleOps Turbo Trainer together. The instructions to build are terrible and if you let yourself get bogged down by the complex language you'd never manage it so I decided to throw the instructions away, metephorically, and just look at the bits and put it together. This was by far the best option. It took me little more than 1 hour to assemble but I waited until today to give it a go. So Eze was asleep, El was asleep and the Cup Final was about to start, so I stuck the telly on and got on the bike. 50 minutes later it's half time and I'd kept a good pace going throughout. The trainer is quiet and sturdy but without the great outdoors cooling you down you sweat buckets. Had a rest at half time and then got back on for the second half. Another 50 minutes at a good pace (well I never left the kitchen obviously but I was pedaling hard) at this point Ava came home with friends who subsequenty thought the site of her dad in lycra pedaling a bike that doesn't go anywhere the most ridiculous and therefore funniest thing she'd ever seen. Granted she's only 4 and will no doubt see many funnier things in her life, but today it was me. Laugh? Yeah she laughed, and laughed, and laughed. Still I have to say, even taking into coonsidertion the ridicule, the CycleOps is a success and it means I can try and catch the northern alliance up at least in terms of conditioning if not actual miles on the road. Hope you enjoyed Olly's, Kev and Steve, and Olly if you are reading, hope all is well and see you soon I hope. Happy days.
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