Preparation

It’s that time of year where the pros in all parts of cycling are planning their seasons to best optimise their results.

For Bradley Wiggins this means getting come competitive miles in his legs before taking Tony Martin on in the World Time Trial Championships at the end of the season.

For Sam Hill what it seems to mean is avoiding kangaroos on his training rides in order to simply make it to the beginning of the downhill season undamaged. It’s not exactly what you expect from a training session, I guess, even when you are based in Australia.

Apart from this it seems to be all Winter Olympics in the world at one end of the scale and desert racing in the Tour of Qatar at the other extreme. Oh, and I seem to have fixed the jumpy chain problem with a new sprocket so rides to work and back are less stressful when it comes to needing to accelerate away

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