With an “easy” ride to Windsor following a route the road captain named as “Boring Windsor”.
A road captain that didn’t bother to show up because apparently it was raining.
A ride that was meant to be easy but didn’t feel that easy because two weeks off the bike take its toll.
Two weeks off the bike that marked the end of the 2021/2022 “season” and the beginning of the 2022/2023 one.
A 2022/2023 “season” full of plans imagined from the comfort of my sofa, a place from where everything seems possible.
Plans are still in draft. There is more imagining to be done sitting on my sofa. For now this is how they look:
Sun, 19 Mar 2023 - Gentley Bentley (https://audax.uk/event-details/9976-gently_bentley) - 200km Audax
Sat, 1 Apr 2023 - Tour de Flanders (https://werideflanders.com/en)
Sat, 8 Apr 2023 - Paris Roubaix (https://www.parisroubaixchallenge.com/en)
Sat, 15 Apr 2023 - Amesbury Amble (https://audax.uk/event-details/9979-amesbury_amble) - 300km Audax
Sat, 13 May 2023 - Dauntsey Dawdle (https://audax.uk/event-details/9921-dauntsey_dawdle) - 400km Audax
Sat, 20 May 2023 - Bryan Chapman Memorial (https://www.audax.uk/event-details/10222-bryan_chapman_memorial) - 600km Audax
Sat, 28 May 2023 to Sat, 3 June 2023 - Kingston Wheelers Saturday Gang training camp. Hoping to convince the gang we should go for a Ventoux Cingles attempt (https://www.clubcinglesventoux.org/) As said above, everything seems easy from my sofa
Sat, 17 Jun 2023 - Wander Wye (https://audax.uk/event-details/9898-wander_wye) - 600km Audax OR Quebrantahuesos (https://www.quebrantahuesos.com), depending on if I get a place at the Quebrantahuesos ballot
At some point in July - A long(ish) event
Sun, 20 Aug to Thu, 24 Aug - Paris Brest Paris (https://www.paris-brest-paris.org) 1200km Audax
Sat, 2 Sep 2023 - Alpen Brevet (https://www.alpenbrevet.ch) As you would expect we are going for the Platinum route, 268Km 7090m
My main event for the year is Paris Brest Paris. My time in the 2019 edition was 59h 31m. Beating that time is my main objective. I want to set my fastest PBP and leave it there for the rest of my life. But I also set myself a stretch objective, from the comfort of my sofa, of going sub 55 hours.
That’s it. Now that I have an objective for the year I guess I should start thinking how I’m going to get there. But that will be next Sunday. Enough thinking from the comfort of my sofa for this week.
The ride in Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/8007408884/
Take care
Javier Arias González
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