Today’s cycle ride looked oh so promising when my personal training client and I left home at 10.00am.  A few miles down the road whilst making our way out to the planned hilly climb (she is training for an endurance event at the end of the summer and I wanted to throw in some heart rate intervals), spots of rain started to fall.  “Let’s keep going, it will only be a short shower.”  Yeah right!!!  Oh well, it was only a bit of water.

One of the great things about this time of year is that as soon as the rain stops and the sun makes an appearance, you know it won’t take long to dry off.  That’s exactly what happened as we started to climb.  A short while later our heart rates were elevated and we were steaming…literally!  The clouds disappeared and the view was spectacular.

We enjoyed the ups and downs of the ride and dried off very quickly.  After a well-deserved short snack stop (to get sustained energy release by mixing carbohydrate and small amount of protein), we made our way back home.

It would have been so easy to turn around at the first sight of the clouds at 10.15am and go do the personal training session inside.  OK, so we got a bit wet, but the enjoyment and sense of achievement for my client at the end was worth a soggy t-shirt for a while!  Once again, she amazed herself at how much stronger she is feeling, especially when the hill climbs are getting tougher.