Weight. A cyclists obsession...

I keep finding myself looking at very expensive carbon-framed bikes and imagining how much better they'd make my cycling performance. I have to keep telling myself that it's easier to lose the weight from my body than to find the money to upgrade my bike.

Plus the winners of the Tour de France were using bikes of a similar weight to mine all the way up to the late 1990's.

Plus I cannot justify upgrading a bike which is 3 months old.

So I won't be buying any improvement in performance just yet. Shame - those carbon bikes look so pretty.

Another 9.5 miles run this week, and the promise of one or two days riding in the Brecon Beacons to come.