Yes thats right the reason why Spartacus has been given the task of writing todays blog is because our friendly blogger "Kent Beasley" was out. Now to his defence he has been nursing a niggling knee injury and stated on the text it needed some rest however the sceptic in me seems to recall Friday night drinks were on the agenda after a busy week which makes we wonder if there was one too many sherbets had for Kent?
Mr Beasley, Mr Beasley, Do you have a Dicky Knee???We have heard reports of Kent wanting to stay in his pyjamas this morning. The image below was sent to us from a very good source as they stated Kent was very excited about his new pyjamas.
We will continue to grill him some more to come back to you with the real truth behind Kents absence.
Anyway, onto more important things such as our training session this morning. Apart from the three remaining Cyc'd boys (Gav, Dammo and yours truely) plus their Super Domestique Jase "Andy" Nowlan, we also had the pleasure of Tim, Peter and of course the new gun Lucie join our peleton this morning as we headed off south towards Redland bay for the infamous Carbrook loop.
Of course the first 20 to 30 minutes of the session was taken up with everyone discussing all the excuses why Kent wasn't joining us today. Statements such as Wuss and Soft were common terms of endearment at the time however I did hear someone in the peleton talking about bringing their tiara for Kent to wear if he wanted to be too precious. Nice one Lucie...
After that initial 30 minutes the team had to navigate one of those unplanned stops as Gav's rear tire decided to go flat. The super domestique was there in a flash replenishing water bottles and assisting Gav with the puncture as the true star he is and we were back on our way.
It was at this point we realised the weather man was wrong again as the initial forecast of a min temp of 12 degrees was challenged by the fact that we were rolling through loganholme as it hit 8 degrees and stayed there for the next hour of our journey. In order to stay warm the team ramped up a paceline through the carbrook stretch that challenged a few of the team to hang on as we maintained an average of 35k's an hour for the next 15k's while tackling some hilly sections of the loop. Great work from the Schleck brothers (Gav & Jase) on this section.
After this section there was the stark reality that we were 45 odd klms from the start of our journey and it was time to navigate our way back. Apart from the usual banter within the peleton this was a reasonably steady pace without too much confrontation until we experienced some slight road rage. While riding two abreast as usual through a section of road with a reasonably large shoulder a driver in a small red hatchback came from nowhere and while approaching the group from the rear proceeded to beep their horn however rather than just passing us on the RH side decided to drive between the peleton and the Gutter on the left of us. The team were left in shock of the stupidity of this driver and thankful that we were all OK.
A good training session with a total of 90k's at an average speed of 30.5k's with 900 metres of vertical ascent. Thanks Tim, Peter, Lucie, Jase, Gav & Dammo.
Now there is a serious side to today as it would be remiss of us not to acknowledge that today is the anniversary of Adam Smiddy's passing. Our thoughts go out to Adams parents Maria and David and brother Paul and good mate and cycling partner Mark Smoothy. It is Mark who started the Smiling for Smiddy cause which has raised more than $2 million for cancer research today and the reason why we are embarking on the 6th Smiddy challenge to Townsville this year.
Mark you are a bloody legend!!!
Until next time... Spartacus
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