In my last blog post I had just started to be able to ride my bike pain free. A month on and I'm now gradually building the miles up to return back to proper training. I have managed to ride over four hours and incorporated intensity back in too. I'm very lucky to have such a great support network at Loughborough as I'm continuing to have weekly physio and have been training in the altitude chamber to try and get me back to race fitness quickly.
It's always easy to believe you will loose massive amounts of fitness when you have had time off with injury, but I have been pleasantly surprised about how I feel in training. My first race back (in a very long time) is on the 16th May at the Yorkshire road race test event. I'm not particularly expecting anything amazing but I believe the best way to get race fit is to just throw yourself back into racing, and to be honest I'm looking forward to it!
Over Easter I went to a few circuit training sessions with 30 people attending so I have already past the initial bunch riding experience, it was strange at first but after a few laps you get back into it easily. These sessions were a confidence booster I needed to see where I was at.
My calendar is starting to fill up now too with a few UCI events, Lotto Cups and National Road series so I have plenty of events to have some motivation for. It's definitely going to be very strange properly racing again as my last event was September 2019!
I'm still really hopeful for the 2021 season despite the covid restrictions and my injury as I have a new team, and amazing support from Loughborough and Pedal Potential.
Thanks for reading,
Liv
