A couple of weeks or so since my last update. I have spent 3 weeks away in Scotland, training in the hills on the West Coast, and, whilst the volume has not been too great because of the pressures of work, the quality has been good. Every bike session has been hard, and I have managed to ramp up my swimming volume as well.

Now that summer is here and the mornings are lighter I am managing to get out and about – swimming before work and cycling until after eight! It’s great to be able to go out without overshoes, buff and winter gloves, whilst having to watch out for black ice all the time. It’s going to be another 2 weeks before I get a free weekend to have a ride out with Turbo Man and see how I am getting on, but the indications are good. It would look like he is peaking as well, so there is no guarantee that the gap has narrowed though!