I’d just like you to know that my body rocks.  And I don’t mean that in an immodest, hey, look at me way.  I mean it in a biological mechanical sense.  It’s just amazing what it can do.

It got up at 5:00am and cycled the hilliest sportive it has ever done on Sunday – 106 miles, 3407 metres of climbing – on the hottest day of the year so far.  All I fed it was a a bar and a half and the best part of a couple of bananas, washed down with a lot of water/Torq.  I drank my recovery, and wasn’t even in the mood for a good meal when I got in, and I’ve not been all that hungry ever since.  Thirsty yes, hungry no.  And oddest of all, I didn’t even sleep well Sunday night.

Yesterday morning I will admit that my get up and go hadn’t bothered getting up at all.  And I had a tendency to lose my train of thought halfway through…  But my legs were feeling ok, and by the end of the day I was feeling a lot better mentally too.  So I was dreading today.  Day 2 can be the worst, as it was post Somerset 100.  Especially as, yet again, I didn’t sleep well last night. So this morning I was expecting DOMS and a very good zombie impression.

But no.  Nothing of the sort.  To put this to the test I went for the ride I had planned with Mim.  Nothing fancy.  A few “hills” to start with – round the Webbington and the back of Loxton way – and then mostly flat with wind, round Brent Knoll, Burnham, the Levels and home.  Now I’m not saying I’d have liked to be doing a long sportive today.  Or that I went up the hills with any great panache.  But it was pretty much like any other training ride – as my stats demonstrate.

Cycling time: 2:10:13 hrs
Distance: 34.28 miles
Avs: 15.7 mph
ODO: 9248 miles

Isn’t that just amazing?  Considering the pretty constant talking going on, it was even fairly fast.  I’m still feeling pretty good – no sudden come down or anything.  I told you – my body rocks! :).

Maybe Day 3 will be the charm this time ’round…. 😉

As for the Dartmoor Classic – my overall position was 509th, out of about 760 finishers.  Average.  I was 12th out of the 33 women though – which is better.  I sent them an email, including a link to the blog entry, to say how great I thought it had been, and they’ve put it on their home page – which totally made my day, and means that I’ve had lots of lovely visitors popping by and agreeing with me :).