Motorbiking, Motorbiking

Another signature from Aintree!!

My 2nd outing at Aintree was blessed with mostly good weather, a brief shower in the morning soon blew out and we were left with glorious sunshine for the rest of the day. A steady start and some pointers from some seasoned veterans (2013 Champion & Team Boss) saw me progress to getting some good corner speed (apparently) and eventually getting some of the corners nearly right!!

However, being lapped race after race did nothing for my confidence neither did the odd excursion grass tracking. All this plus a bit of de-hydration made me fall out with myself and only compete in 3 of my 4 races.

On my return home I compared last outings pace with Saturdays to find almost a 10mph avg speed increase!! Maybe I should've listened to my experienced team and stayed for the last race - oh well there is always next time!!

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The Shin Splint Saga

So still suffering from the shin splints despite exercises, compression bandages and ice I thought I'd try and maintain my motivation with some swimming.

Sunday afternoon:

After a nice swim on the Sunday I was up for some early morning swims before work so got straight back in the pool on Monday morning - mistake!! Shoulders and legs were still hanging from what I thought was a leisurely swim on the Sunday.

Still keen, or so I thought, it took 2 days to return to the pool due to lack of AM motivation (something I have been plagued with for a long time!). Thursdays effort was good completing another 500m set. Shoulders, legs an old rugby injuries made me start to wonder if some dry land exercises wouldn't go a miss so back to the weights bench and stretch exercises for me!