{"id":733,"date":"2015-01-11T07:45:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T07:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/77.104.180.154\/~andrewdo\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2021-04-06T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T15:01:18","slug":"training-starts-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2015\/01\/11\/training-starts-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Training starts here"},"content":{"rendered":"
Since I signed up to Ride 999<\/a> I’ve had an anxiousness in my stomach that I haven’t been able to shake. It kept me up most of the night after I hit ‘join’ and hasn’t really gone away. I think it’s down to three things:<\/p>\n
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  1. What have I committed to?! Will I really be able to ride 900 miles in nine days?<\/li>\n
  2. Will people sponsor me so that I reach the required \u00a32,000 that the charity needs from me?<\/li>\n
  3. I need to get cracking on training! (I still have @riderstuart<\/a>‘s voice ringing in my ears from a call we had yesterday where he said I need to be doing 100 miles a week at this point).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Number 1 is done-and-dusted and not worth worrying about. Number 2 is where my friends, family and the Internet comes in. The only one I can do anything about is Number 3. So, in that spirit, training starts here<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    I have two young boys of 7 and 5 years of age and like most families like us we have lots of weekend commitments. I am going to try and keep as many of them as I can whilst doing as many miles as I can. So, at 8am I’m going out in this to cycle a long route over to my eldest son’s football match:<\/p>\n

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    Wish me luck!<\/div>\n

    UPDATE: <\/strong>Although the ride was cold, I soon warmed up. The 25 miles out to football felt great. I had a protein bar, watched 40 minutes of football and got chilly. The 15 miles back were a real slog\u2014my thighs were burning and I was slow and hungry. Clearly I have a lot of work to do.<\/div>\n

    Since I signed up to Ride 999 I’ve had an anxiousness in my stomach that I haven’t been able to shake. It kept me up most of the night after I hit ‘join’ and hasn’t really gone away. I think it’s down to three things: What have I committed to?! Will I really be able […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cycling","7":"category-ride-999","8":"category-sport","9":"h-entry","11":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":853,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2015\/05\/01\/back-on-track-ramping-it-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":733,"position":0},"title":"Back on track, ramping it up","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"1 May 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A while ago, I posted that my training goal for Ride 999 in 2015 was to keep ahead of my 2014 distance. 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