Turbo Trainer

No, this is not some rocket fuelled footwear as the name might suggest!! I am borrowing a ‘Turbo Trainer’ (see picture above) which enables you to train without actually leaving the comfort of your own home! Em uses rollers, because they actually require balance and mimic the road , but Grant took great pleasure in pointing out, that with my history of tumbles I’d perhaps be better of with a fixed turbo trainer than investing in a couple of mattresses to put either side of the roller!! Git!! Anyway the logic behind this is as the weather is so bloody unpredictable at present and the time is just rattling by I need to be able to train regularly. We’ve got a rowing machine at home, which Martin keeps trying to get me to use, but I said I’m cycling not rowing! I know we’ve got to cross the channel, but I think that’s on a ferry, not under our own steam! I also decided that the rollers may not be such a good idea as I’ll have to train in the extension at the back of the house where our dogs are and I may keep falling off if I have to kick them out the way! (Wouldn’t kick them really) (yes I would)………………