Irish international Felix English has just returned from his first get together with new team Rapha Condor Sharp. Here’s a blog for stickybottle…..
Monday, November 14th
Over the past few weeks I've started to get myself back into my training routine. My training will remain steady and relaxed over the coming four weeks; I’ll take a more specific and regulated route in the New Year.
At the moment I’ve been steadily clocking up the kilometres on short steady 2-3 hour rides. I’ve now reached the 1,200km mark, but I hope to be up around 3,000km by Christmas.
I spent the weekend in Sheffield getting to know some of my new team mates at Rapha Condor Sharp. I drove up to North London on Friday evening to stay with my new team mate Oliver Rossi - Team Sinner. I know Oliver quite well, after spending two years racing and training with him as part of the British Cycling Talent Team.
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We left early Saturday morning to arrive at our very nice hotel in Sheffield for two o'clock. We were about 90 minutes early, after allowing plenty of time for bad traffic, but we got to meet the Oxford United football team and have a nosey around the hotel before the others arrived.
It was good to meet some more of my new team mates for next year - Mike Cuming, Jimmy Mach, Richard Handley, Tim Kennaugh and Luke Mellor. We spent the afternoon in some brief meetings, setting targets and going through our early season race calendar.
I was sharing a room with Mike and I think we both agreed the thing we were both most looking forward to was the meal at Nonnas. It didn't disappoint! A large very nice steak was the highlight.
After sleeping off a very full stomach we were up and checked out of the hotel for 7.30am to head over to Claremont Hospital for our day of testing. A nice healthy breakfast to kick-start the day and we were away having meetings and tests. My day consisted of - EPG/blood tests, physio, medical, nutrition and performance testing.
Everything went well and I learnt a lot over the course of the day.
I arrived home late last night, after making the decision to drive home straight from Oliver’s. After numerous closed roads and diversions I managed to be in bed by 12.30am.
Today will consist of cleaning and boxing team bikes and packing to leave for Majorca tomorrow morning; a week’s training in the sun and hills awaits.
Felix
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