Tuesday Night Training. 12 starters. After the 3 lap warm-up 2 guys broke away and held us all at bay for the hour. One sporting a new rear disk wheel and an H3 (HED) on the front. Like last week I thought they’d slow down a bit and the followers (us) would catch them. We

Been some time since I did the first this test back in January. Have been feeling guilty about not using my roller much except for warming up for races. With some rainy looking clouds outside to make me procastinate a river run I did both; the roller and a short river ride. I started this time

The clouds were thick this morning but was dry enough to head out to training.  Can’t remember the last time I went as the weather, Saitama TT and TOJ have interrupted the last few weeks. Was humid with a slight headwind for the sprint home. A small 4 man group was not big enough to

Tuesday night really drained all my energy. Last night with the faster sprint training I was left for dead from the start. Didn’t contest one sprint. Got dropped twice and took the short cut up the center to rejoin everybody twice. Even dropped a whole lap and let them re-join me. Took a few heavy

Continued my Tuesday night winning streak. Will have to go back through the archives now to see how many in a row. Funny how the will to win is stronger at training than in a real race. I even said last night, ‘I don’t think I will try too hard tonight…’. 10 riders. 54.5kph Max.

Was one of those days where you would rather stay in bed. Cold & rainy. The worst conditons for this course. I had little to no motivation at all for this unless the sun was going to come out before the start and dry the whole place out. This course is even dangerous when it’s

Had a nice slow ride to Sekiyado for my pre-race day lunch by the castle. Left to right… Icy cold water, bottle of vitamins, glass of vitamins, grilled eel on rice (unagi-don), some pickled vegetables, a bowl of miso/wakame soup and some green beans that are eaten when you drink beer! Did I say beer?

Had my last hard training session before this Sunday’s Tour of Japan Tokyo stage race. I’ll be in the 2A category and I’m pleased with my form. Tonight there were 10 of us and we started a bit late but we all knew it would still be an hour till the sprint. On about the

Was called up for another out of the blue Noda sprint training tonight. My legs still felt lethargic from Tuesday. 3 riders tonight which is better than 1. Both were stronger than me. 5km warm up, 10 X 3.8km sprints. 5km cool down. (48km). I only won the last sprint. Again I got them tired…tired

I prayed for rain in hope that I wouldn’t have to push my lazy bones around again like I did last night. The weather report had rain on the radar right on start time. Not one to just not turn , I got ready, left 30 minutes early and did a semi-warm-up. A few slow