I took a week off work a couple of weeks back to get in lots of quality cycling miles and ensure i recover well too. The week started by having to say goodbye to our Suzuki Vitara. For the past couple of weeks it's been guzzling petrol and putting out black smoke, polluting the environment making the ozone hole bigger by the minute. The garages opinion after £100 of tweaking was that it was a little better, but on it's last legs. The Suzuki never quite got the same reputation as being a tardis, like my old Citreon AX, which we crammed 2 bikes and 2 weeks of camping gear, including large tent and camping hob into!! But nether the less sad to see it go. So instead we are now proud owners of a ford transist (white - of course!), which we are going to convert into a camper van, with optimal bike/ race kit storage. I'm going to be in heaven designing storage spaces once the boring insulating and lining stuff is done, - that's if Simon will let me loose. His first purchase for the van was a dustpan and brush - you can see where its going! Not sure Simon's used the dustpan in the flat!. .jpg)
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Leaving the Vitara and becoming a white van Lady!!
I'll pop up some pictures of the work in progress below - So my time has been consumed gutting the van and assisting in the refitting. Have to admit that the tour de france hasn't help my blog writing!
Stripping the van back taking up the old flooring and putting new baton up ready to insulate the walls
, Simon's head injury, once stopped bleeding from standing up into the light fitting.
, Simon's head injury, once stopped bleeding from standing up into the light fitting.Simon and his Dad, Tim hard at work in the drizzle cutting and fixing new ply walls to the van. You can just make out my skillfully laid vinyl flooring.
Oh yes - back to training and racing - Rode a 50 mile TT to summarise it HURT!!!
Riding WCA 100mile TT in couple of week, so aim to write after that. Then its the Big Woody at the end of August.
Happy training
Sarah x
