Had my bar tape starting to come loose as it had stretched a lot. Being white and dirty plenty of excuses to take a ride down the river to Seo Shin Matsudo and get some old school black tape. Today 32.33 km Yearly total: 3967.89km Daily average:? Daily average goal: 33.71 km

Been slack and have not updated my rides of late. Usually happens this time of year when the cold creeps in. Going to have a big ride tomorrow though and a short one today. 100km ride from home with a few guys from the Apex team. Train home with onsen and a few beers to

Found this nice big Shiitake mushroom in the garden but had to wait a day to get the gas on to fry it up. But well worth the wait. Yum Yum!!! Washed down with a large can of YEBISU beer.

After repairing my shorts this morning I decided to test them out. Took the Trek5.2 for a small spin up to 47 and then down and around Goryu then up the back of the hill to my favorite look-out. Up there I had a nice chat with an elderly couple from Aichi who woke up

Twice or more now I’ve gotten little holes in my new lycra gear. Once in a very expensive pair of running tights (ran past a thorny bush and got bitten) and more often than not by one of the claws of my boisterous Airedale Terrier Lions. Thanks Sora.

With the World Championships on TV to race home for today, I was revved up to do a bit of racing myself. Left as usual a little early and warmed up by myself. Just after a toilet stop I could sense the peleton homing in on me. Unfortunately, they found me with still a few

Very heavy rain today but the skies cleared up and we had 7 starters and 1 late comer. 4 from Semas. 3 from Apex and 1 from BM/Apex for the weekly training. Noda Night Criterium! I arrived an hour early and did 30km warm up. The warm up didn’t help much. With the wet slippery

Took off solo again and went 30kms before the rest caught up at the break stop. I however took off again from there by myself and managed to solo it all the way back to the finish. Forgot to switch on the Garmin for a portion of the loop so look for the big jump.

Have bought 3 different brands of amino acid tablets to try and take in the morning. One bottle by the PC at home, a packet in the car and another by the PC at work. The idea being to take them in the morning (with or without breakfast) to give me a good start to