Cat And Mouse Ride With Kirsty

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I just finished a 32.313km ride that lasted about 1hh:21mm:44ss !

For Sunday, both myself and my girlfriend have been getting out onto the road. Even though we can get a good workout on the indoor trainers, it is good to get out onto the road and make sure we are able to ride well in all kinds of road and weather conditions.

Today was a beautiful morning to get out and ride as it was cloudy and a little cool and there was barely any wind, which is a nice change to the usual Auckland weather.(Auckland is known as the City of Sales, due to the fact there is always a nice strong breeze to take a yacht out on the harbour) We have been riding on a bike path that runs along the western freeway our of Auckland. Even though it is only 8km in one direction, it is perfect to ride repeats of the course and it is a pretty good simulation of race conditions, including some small hill climbs that we can do some 100% efforts on.

It's a fun ride because we keep it under two hours and we take turns in leading. I am not sure if it's on purpose but the leader always seems to try and break away from the rider behind, but it is generally good time out on the road leaving us both with a good workout.

The ride was great and something I really needed. I was able to push hard and finished feeling strong. I am feeling like my riding is improving but at the same time I have been feeling run down and tired. I really needed a ride like today as it gives me some good confidence moving into some more difficult training for up coming races.

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