Not much training for my charity bike ride this last week as it was Gill's big birthday on Thursday, and we had a party on Friday at Luscombes. By the way we can thoroughly recommend Luscombes, the food was fantastic as was the service. Reading Beer Festival on Saturday. However I did get in a short spin to Nettlebed and back on my new Bianchi road bike. This was the first time that I have been out on my new bike, getting used to the fixed pedals and new gear changes. Really enjoyed the ride, realising how fast you can go downhill on a road bike. Scary!!
I need to start to put in more miles now. Have had a couple of offers from friends to go out cycling with. These are much appreciated but sometimes I just enjoy the solitude of a bike ride on your own. My plan is to maybe do two short evening rides and then a longer one at the weekend. Combine this with a spinning class on Monday and a general gym session on Thursday should continue to help my preparation for my July charity ride from London to Paris. I will probably need to complete a few back to back longer rides to get used to getting back on the bike when I'm sore and tired! Also the cricket season starts on Saturday. I keep wicket for Henley IV's. A long bike ride after keeping wicket would be hard on the thighs.
That's it for this week hope to have completed a ride to Oxford and back soon. That's about 50 miles in all and rather picturesque.
Happy Cycling, Phil
Hi, We are Phil and Gill Chappell. We own the Best of Henley-on-Thames. We live in Henley so would love to hear your views and opinions about all things Henley.
The following Cookies are used on this Site. Users who allow all the Cookies will enjoy the best experience and all functionality on the Site will be available to you.
You can choose to disable any of the Cookies by un-ticking the box below but if you do so your experience with the Site is likely to be diminished.
In order to interact with this site.
To help us to measure how users interact with content and pages on the Site so we can make
things better.
To show content from Google Maps.
To show content from YouTube.
To show content from Vimeo.
To share content across multiple platforms.
To view and book events.
To show user avatars and twitter feeds.
To show content from TourMkr.
To interact with Facebook.
To show content from WalkInto.