Countdown to the Haute Route 2014
Everything is paid up and the medical forms complete. I have been given the all clear from the organisers, so all I need to do is turn up. It's getting real. With one month to go until the Dolomites route, for the first time I have looked at the stage routes and thought 'I actually have to do this!' A quick look at my training diary gives me confidence I have done as much as I can to get me over the climbs.
After 10 days of food poisoning caught whilst training in the high alps, I feel I am back to a good performance level. Retrospectively, I think the rest may have been a blessing, but the timing could have been better. My training plan has just three hard sessions left until my taper starts. I am now counting down the days until I fly out and start racing. I am lookinjg forward to riding being my 100% focus for over three weeks.
