Pro tour update - January 2016

2016 seems to have gotten off to a great start if you're an Aussie, or if you support an Australian team - with the first UCI World Tour event going to Simon Gerrans on Orica Greenedge - although some people might just call it home advantage! Aussies have even more to celebrate with the top three in the UCI world rankings all being them as well! (see below)

Simon Gerrans in Orca

With the Australian Championships also taking place in January it's being going off with a bang Down Under, and both the men and women's road races being crackers from the footage I've seen... 

The new Australian Road and Time Trial champions are as follows:

Women

Road : Amanda Spratt

ITT : Katrin Garfoot

Men

Road : Jack Bobridge

ITT : Rohan Dennis

Caleb Ewan of Orica particularly impressed again at the beginning of the season, in winning the National Crit Championships and then 2 stages of the Tour Down Under. If you haven't seen this guy sprint then it really is something you must do - he gets so low over the bars when sprinting it's crazy how he manages to still get the power down on the road!

Caleb Ewan Celebrates

UCI road rankings as at the end of January are:

Men

1. S Gerrans (AUS) 775 points
2. R Porte (AUS) 485
3. J McCarthy (AUS) 370

Women

1. N/A (season not started yet)

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Monthly update - January 2016

I can safely say that January hasn't started off with the training 'bang' that was my New Year resolution - kicking 2016 off with a great start and setting the rhythm for the rest of the year!

As it turns out, I've managed a grand total of 0km on the bike, 0m of swimming, and am 17km behind the pace already when it comes down to running - which is almost a weeks-worth of distance! I'll blame it on a number of things - the weather, work, and trying to fit food around training... What it actually comes down to is being rather bone-idle (despite the last post on training partners!) especially when they send you out to get the fish and chips whilst they are out for a run!!

Despite the laughably poor looking stats above, where I've only actually managed to meet the distance planned one out of four times, two of the others weeks have been within a couple of km of the target (as I pointed out to Ali as she sniggered at the stats over my shoulder!). This has definitely been an 'easier' month in terms of running, as a lot of it has been done along the canal or through town meaning a lot less elevation gain and quite often a lot less mud!!

However, February is a new month, so I can only hope it's onwards and upwards! The plan is to get out on the bike for the first cycle in 2016 on Saturday, so I can at least get off the block with that target, however swimming might have to hold off another week as it'll be a busy one at work!

If you missed out on what I've challenged myself this year then either click on the link to the right as this is the featured post at the moment, or go via this link - 2016 - What I want to do.

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