2008 December

Shock! Horror! アラマ！ Words that could trigger Koji in my mind sometimes… postcards, attack or harmonica, but not retire. Especially as he is the ‘younger’ brother. I usually check Koji’s blog once or twice a month and the other day I clicked on his English blog to see that he has announced his retirement on [...]

Cold. Rain. Mud. Wet. I joined TCC’s B team for some end of year wheel spinning, mud sliding, rain dodging racing. We intended to do 30 minute runs but at the last moment, due to the wet and cold decided we only wanted to be out there once and therefore did 1 hour shifts. I [...]

Last Friday I rode to work and on the way home got caught in a thunderstorm. After dodging 2 trucks and a woman who went around a corner in front of me without looking, I managed to slide off a steel grate in front of a 7/11 and attempt to break my thigh/hip, & shoulder [...]

Last night was cold as usual and I took the Fondriest for a spin with the Garmin. On my warm up lap I tried to set a mark (in the Garmin) for the sprint (110m) inside the tunnel and then another mark on the finish line. The problem with this though is the GPS signal [...]

I have a huge selection of summer wear but not much winter stuff.  Of my 2 pairs of winter gloves I can only find half a pair. The new gloves in the shops are almost twice the price of last year with good gloves running at over 8000 yen. The last couple of weeks I’ve [...]

Had the day off today, (and tomorrow, and the next day, and most of the day after that too-) due to mid term tests. Before lunch I took Lunar and Sora for a walk and there were 3 crows in the park who wanted to play ‘chasings’ with us. That lasted more than 30 minutes. [...]