Pembs Triathlon Camp

Pool this morning. Running late as usual. Only 4 of us in. Did long steady plan 1. 3k. Then the couple from Pembs Tri turned up, both very nice , both know me , we have chatted many many times. Not a clue what either of their names is. The relationship has gone too far to ask without causing offence. I’ll have to stalk them on facebook to find out.

Turbo this evening and i bump into Kyle outside and for the life of me cannot remember his name. He knows it i know it. Then i remember and its Kyle this , Kyle that as if over compensating using his name will make it better. It didn’t
Escobar was there with his wheel. Looks alright. Probably worth the money. Escobar was sporting his 2 ronnies glasses which makes him look like a serial killer quite frankly. Considering his cash flow thats probably quite close to the mark. If you’ll pardon the expression. He was off for a swim so it was nice of him to bring the wheel down. I was marginally preoccuppied with that when Mr Fabulous walks out of the changing room with one of NBCC new skin suits on. It was tight. His balls must have been up by his waist somewhere. Then Pete lloyd walks out of the kitchen wearing his.His was tighter and one can only guess where his were. This was all a bit much for me to take in at the time and i had to leave the room. Still they are cool. The suits. But for 160 quid they would want to be. Fabulous and lloydys were XL. I mean how small are these Italians? I haven’t been for a while but have they degenerated into a nation of oompa lumpas in less than a generation???

After i had recovered and had a medicinal coffee to sooth my jangled nerves trying to recover from the shock of what i had just witnessed. I popped to the back to see Gareth, Charlie and Jon. This turned out to be a big mistake. As it was clearly open season on me and the ridicule was coming fast. I scurried away and took my chances with Fabulous. The warm up started .Rhys was talking some bollox about ceramic something or other . I stopped listening to him after the first stanza . A little disappointed with myself that i started listening to him in the first place.

Anyway, Turbo was a hard one 40/20 . 5mins times 5 with 4 mins rest. the 20 secs was 120% FTP the 40 secs was 90%FTP. All good stuff.If being sick into a bag is a exciting passtime of yours.

Turbo done . Time to ask The master what he thought of the wheel. He had got his bike stuck in his turbo. Jammed solid. Now, it is my belief that i played no small part in finding the solution but was given no credit whatsoever. So Nick likes the wheel,lot of breath through the teeth ,and oohs,nice. How much? he asks. I tell him. A face. Not a positive one. Not a ‘ rip his frecking arm off ‘ face. By fuck no. Would you believe the master has an encylopedic knowledge of how much this very wheel , this wheel, goes for on ebay. Bit pricey .the man says.Hmmmn. I have my doubts. Seen a pair go for just under twice as much . Uh huh. Well , my maths isn’t great but that makes it in the ball park surely? Mr Fab doesn’t know what to do. He is torn in half. As he cannot work out a way of agreeing with both of us. So he says nothing and walks away with his head bowed.

went to gareths after and had a laugh doing the post mortem of this evenings turbo. Character assasinations basically.