Week 82 metrics

19th July - 25th July

• Total distance: 61.25mi
• Total elevation: 2,012ft
• Longest ride: 13.0mi
• Time in saddle: 5h 20m

What is wrong with me? Six weeks to go until the biggest cycling undertaking of my life, and I'm barely training. Mojo? What mojo...?

Week 81 metrics

12th July - 18th July

• Total distance: 45.44mi
• Total elevation: 2,332ft
• Longest ride: 16.34mi
• Time in saddle: 3h 40m

Pathetic, frankly. I blame the heat, and the fact that I'm self-isolating as a precaution whilst a member of my family awaits their PCR test result. All that, and the fact that training so much for 18 months now has basically robbed me of my cycling mojo; the joy of it has nearly all gone.

Week 80 metrics

5th July - 11th July

• Total distance: 84.73mi
• Total elevation: 1,918ft
• Longest ride: 21.35mi
• Time in saddle: 7h 29m

A little better than last week, but still nowhere near enough.

Week 79 metrics

28th June - 4th July

• Total distance: 56.67mi
• Total elevation: 2,800ft
• Longest ride: 26.24mi
• Time in saddle: 4h 48m

Pretty terrible. Worst week for almost five months. The bikes are fine but the metaphorical wheels are coming off me...