Jul
23
Polar Heart Rate Monitors
July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I have a Polar 720Si that I have been using for some years now. Check out the graphs of my Tuesday night training and the Hakuba hill climb. The graphs speak for themselves mostly and I use similar graphs of race data (races I’ve already done once) and simulate the same heart intensity on my [...]
Jul
22
Hakuba Hill Climb
July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Took the long weekend up to Hakuba with my son, dog & brother from Singapore. There is a nice hill climb from central Hakuba up the old route 406 towards Nagano. It’s only about 13km to the top from the house we stay in and there is about 8 or 9km of climbing involved to [...]
Jul
3
Hitachinaka Tour Du Japon D class 30km
July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I was wet and cold and started my sprint about 300 to 400m too early. After escaping the bunch I ran out of gas about 50 to 100 m before the finish line and finished in the middle of this group 3.6 seconds away from 1st place. Stooopid me. All I had to do was [...]
