Christian Ainley my day to day

  British cycling has evolved from the millennium to where it is now. it was an underfunded sport that was hard to break into. Slowly this changed and more resources were made available and a management team was put in place to drive success. They based themselves in the Manchester velodrome and recruited the best young riders from around the country.  Steve Cummings entered that program to become an Olympic cyclist for Great Britain, Steve is a great cyclist but by his own admission he’s better suited to long road races rather than punchy Olympic short races on a velodrome. This book covers the start of his career through to his specialty of getting in to the break and riding solo for the win.  With in this book he gives an insight into team sky and team GB as well as the other teams he’s ridden for, he doesn’t hold back an where there were problems he holds his hands up.  It’s a good sporting biography sand if you know an aspiring cyclist then they’ll enjoy it. It ...

  It’s back to the gym and cross trainer to start on intervals, I didn’t push too hard after two tough days. 1.54km in 30 mins. Cable tri pull downs with a bar 16.5kg up to 28kg.  Over head tri pulls starting with 20kg up to 28kg Rope pull downs starting with 16.5kg up to 28kg  Some bar presses staring with 15kg up to 30kg. The tri machine next starting with 50kg up to 58kg it was a struggle.  Wide chest press to finish starting with 19kg up to 30kg and back down to 19kg. It was a good session.   Gave fun stay safe 👍🏼

  I woke up early and while having a nice breakfast of granola and yogurt I worked on the next unit on the leadership course. Equality, diversity and inclusion. I worked through the first half of the unit and decided to get out and have some fresh air.  It was a nice long walk up to Windsor and then up the long walk to George III statue and back into town. It wasn’t a pizza express today but an adult happy meal from McDonald’s for the Friends toy. Today it was a Ross to go along side Chandler from last week. I came home and finished off unit 5 and submitted it for marking.  A nice day all in all let’s see how unit 5 gets on. With my poor grammar I’m unlikely to get a plagiarism strike.  Have fun stay safe 👍🏼

  I’ve completed half of the Principles Of Team Leading course. Unit 4 has been marked and I’ve passed only 4 more to go.  In all honesty it’s a bottom weighted course with the first two units having 40% of the questions.  But it’s progress and I’ll soon be looking for my next project or course to study.  Have fun stay safe 👍🏼

 It was back to the gym today and a leg work out, I try to get legs in every week if nothing else. It was  rowing to start and 3844 meters in 30 minutes.  On to hack squats and 57kg up to 67kg it felt ok and I should go up next week. ( if I remember ).  Leg curls next and 41kg up to 61kg  Leg extensions 40kg up to 65kg  Calf raises 40kg up to 50kg.  Abs crunches 57kg up to 75 kg  It was a good workout, the leg press was tied up so I could get on as one is broken. I’ll add it to the next session.  Have fun stay safe 👍🏼

  In the early nineties the average speed in the Tour de France was 28kph by the late nineties that had risen to 35kph, what caused that shift, better training, lighter equipment or new training regimes. Well all those things made small margins but the truth was a sport that had been surrounded by drugs and cheating had found a new edge in cheating and taking performance enhancing drug that could raise performance by 20% that was the hormone EPO . Where there downsides, yes blood so thick you could die in your sleep a ban from the sport or criminal conviction if found in France. It didn’t deter professional cyclists and if you look at the records most of the names have been struck because of drug use.  Tyler Hamilton was a trusted lieutenant of Lance Armstrong at his peak and in this book he takes you behind the scenes as the USPostal team comes to dominate the Tour de France. The ways in which they used drugs and how they beat the system of drug tests and scrutiny.  A re...