To the tune of U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday… Coming home from training this morning I met the dirtiest gaijin on bicycle I have ever met in my life. I was just starting out back home from training and had to get home in a hurry as well. Luckily, (I thought) just as I was about

Today I had a day off due to mid term tests at the high school. Morning cleaned the car. Noon to the driving range to hit 200+ balls. Afternoon and night I went to Aprico An Italian styled cafe for cyclists (and anybody else). Owned and operated by Mr Mukai a great rider in his

Last week I said… hold on to the 20km mark and you should be ok. I got dropped at the 19.94km?? point. This week I was even worse. I’Ll blame some dangerous riding by the newer younger guys who don’t slow down for cars or pedestrians because that’s where I let them fly away. I

Was cold and overcast with rain threatening. Sunday training had been prematurely cancelled…but Dave came to the rescue and got me out of the house. We met close to half way at the Tega Numa parking area and then made our way over the bridge, up the hill and into Espa for a chat over

13 riders made it to the start and NO RAIN!!! I said to myself at the 10km mark… ‘it gets tough between the 15km to 20km mark and then it gets easy till the last lap…so just hold on till the 20km mark…’ This kind of mental image training is sometimes programming yourself to fail…

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Day off today but rainy! Days off this year = work on Piranha Golf Japan. Went to the local driving range and bought a glove. Got the last right handed one (for lefties like me) and then whipped out the piraniagolf.com business card. Will be taking people here for demos of the Piranha Golf clubs.

Night Solo Training Today: 49.59km 25.49km Yearly total: 1791.86km Daily average:? Daily average goal: 33.71 km

Had some good Youtube clips of this stage but they keep being removed by Youtube for Copyright violations… What a great ride by Yukiya. If he didn’t take the initiative in the last 1.5km the trio were doomed. Usually in these situations one will break away and win or lose or all three will wait

Check out their Golden Week tour around the Kii peninsular. Have only ridden with this crew once and would love to do some more rides with them. Check out their website too. HERE….an international group of cyclists, riding mostly in and around Tokyo, linking rivers, parks and bike paths to maximize greenery and minimize contact