I thought my times up the Royal Mile were getting respectable, until this morning I chanced up Mr Wingpig heading the same way and I was quite simply massacred on the slope. He didn't even have the good grace to look out of breath with a bead of sweat on the brow when I caught up after he'd waited. Pah. And here's me supposedly training in the hope of getting a place on the Etape du Tour next year with my brother...
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Given a Lesson in Ascending This Morning
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Posted 13 years ago #
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He even had time to take a photo!
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Right! Where were you? Hmmm? Eh?
The indignity of it all!
I was ever so slightly slower than normal, but anything about feeling a little ropey this AM just sounds like an excuse, and even at full fitness I would have been miles behind.
Though actually the camera-whipping-out-for-a-shot-ability was aided by me getting caught by a red light. So nerr.
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Ah. Just seen the spotted thread....
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In your defence, you had been out last night and have only been doing that route for two months; being woken at twenty past five by a gurning toddler every morning probably just makes me more alert and energised at half-past eight. Plus I had two energy-rich cakes yesterday afternoon and tend to start sweating much more noticeably only when I reach the heated and unventilated car park.
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From reading Wingpig's blips, he has also been doing weight training by hauling the wingpiglet around the place
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Ah, much too kind, both. I need to work on my climbing. Tomorrow I go round Arthur's Seat AND the Royal Mile...
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Try West Lomond hill in Fife out of Falkland.
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If you had worn this
You would have gone much faster
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(Right click and copy it into another tab to see the full picture)
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I'm going to start working through the Cols d'Ecosse
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We can aqlways re-run the 12 hills ride, and you can carry an extra-heavy bag full of flour and sugar. Or cakes for the rest of us.
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A few weeks back I popped out once or twice with a calorie-estimating GPS-tracking app running to try and estimate how many laps of the hill it would take to counteract one standard Stockwell & Cohen ISB chocolate chip muffin (two, including Abercorn Avenue on the way out and looping back both times round Old Church Lane then Meadowfield Gardens rather than just going straight downhill past the Crags) but haven't otherwise done anything which could be called hill training since I went up Kaimes at lunchime a few times to see what it was like when it was mentioned as a target Twelve Steepest.
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