A rare Monday off with beautiful sunny mid rainy season weather called for a quick slow spin around the island. Edo river, Tone canal, Tone river and back down the Edo river home. 57.71km Spotted an old grey tanuki that ran across the road in front of me. I thought it was some unknown never [...]

Tuesday is my busy day since April…and this is my first Tuesday night training in a long time as I’ve been too knackered to go… The rides to work and Oyama have helped with a bit of base and I felt strong and fit tonight. However, the guys are still training faster than race pace [...]

Monday commute to work: 23.91km Monday commute to home: 28.99km Wednesday Pool day: 40 laps and 16 running. Thursday commute to work and Subway sandwich: 51.14km Saturday Commute to work: 92.39km + 1km A positive week. Wish they could all be like that.

Rode to work today. Left early, arrived early, cooled down at STARBUCKS, had a 20 minute light snooze. 2 weddings, then rode home. About 4 hours on the bike. Felt good. 93.86 +0.5km

After spending the morning with the dogs at the vet, and booking them in for a trim next week most of the day disappeared. Managed a nice 40+km cycle up to the Sekiyado castle and back down the other side of the river before the clouds started doing there thing. Absolutely peeing down outside right [...]

Nice and slow this morning as I switched the pedals out to SPDs as my Speedplay right shoe is loose and the screws were too butchered for me to repair it this morning. Don’t like the feel of my MTB shoe for the SPD…feels a bit out of shape and small. OUT IN May rain [...]