Lanzarote Training

So Winter is finally over and the 14 to 16 hour days running our ski Chalet business have come to and end after a 4 month slog!

Jude and I escaped to Lanzarote a week ago avec Pinarello and now trying to balance recovering from Winter and training - all going well!

Weather mixed with some rain but sticking to the training plan. The good thing this year is I did manage to get in some long rides towards the back end of Winter and with the amazing lack of snow in the Alps it did allow for some great rides and skiing took a back step.

Our base at a friends Villa in Playa Blanca is a great spot and whilst the route out of Playa Blanca is a bit boring for the first 10KM's and a bit repetetive, once you are either along the coast or through Uga the Island opens out.

I've planned on this 12 days being a build up on core strength before hitting the mountains when back in the Alps end of next week. Its akinda weird change riding flatish roads but the Lanzarote wind makes for a challenging ride. Its either eyeballs out into it, or a mach 3 return with the wind behind.

Back in Chamonix attention turns to getting some climbs under the belt and with most of the high passes starting to open earlier than usual (seems apart from the Galibier).

We've got the cyclosportive lap of Lake Geneva at the end of May which is a flat 180KMS and then into early June we have the Time Megeve event which Peny Comins Events coordinator for Cycling Weekly and Freelance journalist is joining us - watch out for the Cycling weekly article later in the Summer. We still have some spaces left!

The great thing about the Chamonix region is the amount of cyclosportive events during the next few months all leading up to La Marmotte and then the Etape.

So in the leads up to the 'big two' its the Time Megeve, then Morzine, Le Grand Bornand and a couple of over events before the Marmotte at the beginning of July.