Training in Spain

The roads, the weather, the terrain, the drivers, did i mention the weather? Just come back from a couple of weeks training in Spain, it was absolutly incredible! Brilliant routes in the mountains, superb road surfaces, hours without seeing a car, not a drop of rain in 2 weeks and good company.
Based in Denia, just north of Benidorm the camp was the perfect kick start to the season, although by no means a holiday (i came back to work to rest) i had a fantastic time and have already started looking for a flat there for next winter (no more British winters for me!).
With route plans for each day, guides for the two groups and a support vechicle all i needed to concentrate on was the riding. In the first week everybody was out to test each other which resulted in blistering pace up many of the long climbs and not much time to enjoy the scenery, with a change of personel for the second week things where a bit more relaxed. Two weeks of hard riding left me exhausted (and one week later i'm still not back up to speed) but should give me a much more solid base for my season than i have ever had before. The weeks where not without incident, two crashes for myself and numerous others, the organiser of the camp Dave Lloyd came of worst with a broken wrist with two days of the camp left.
I also met up with ex KeswickBikes rider and staff member Jimmy Taylor who was also out enjoying the sunshine, best of luck to him for the coming season.

Many thanks to Dave Lloyd and hope your back on the bike soon, also thanks to John and Terry of Ciclocosta Blanc (http://www.ciclocostablanca.com/) and also to the guides Ian, Peter and Ron.