So where was the winter? I was waiting with my winter training for the winter to come, but it never arrived...

For the ones of you who might have started to believe that I have passed away, I haven't. Just become a bit older, more lethargic and been confronted with a number of health issues over the winter, which, yes you guessed right, prevented me from any structured training.

Heart issues, respiratory issues and finally being hit by Rheumatism basically made even the Sunday teamride kind of hopeless for me. It was a time of concessions, when increasingly I got dropped not just on the climbs but also on the flat. The message was pretty clear, pulpitations, high heartrate, super high TSS for each of those rides basically meant I was spending it all.
I still enjoyed the sunday rides with the fragments of the team that could be bothered to turn up, but at the end I increasingly felt like an obstacle and didnt want anyone to wait for me.

coffee after the penultimate winterride, Kent