Danny Axford
Away from the glamour of the Olympics and British track cycling Golds, I was racing in the only slightly less prestigious Clive Pugh Memorial 25 Mile TT on the famous A4 Bath Road near Aldermarston, organised by Reading CC.
The event was won by Danny Axford, Arctic Shorter in 52 mins. I did another 56. I also finished with some knee pain, which always raises alarm bells for any cyclist.
Early Morning Races and Low Blood Sugar Levels.
I never like morning races, I don’t seem to able to get heart rate high and really go hard. On average in early morning races I am about 2 minutes slower. I was speaking to someone about this before the race. He said he also had this difficulty, he reckoned the problem was low blood sugar levels in the morning. He got over the problem by waking up at 3am to have a bowl of cereal, going back to sleep and having second breakfast at 6am. He said this made a huge difference and enabled him to go much quicker and harder in early morning races. I will definitely be trying this next time.
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