Found a few poems I wrote when I was about 15 or 16. Thought I’d better put them down here for keep sake. The beach one, won a national poetry competition in 1979. I won a massive $40.00 There was a third poem, my favorite about a drug addict who died at the age of

Still alive! Too much work. Summer Break now, so hope to get some riding in!

A rare Monday off with beautiful sunny mid rainy season weather called for a quick slow spin around the island. Edo river, Tone canal, Tone river and back down the Edo river home. 57.71km Spotted an old grey tanuki that ran across the road in front of me. I thought it was some unknown never

Tuesday is my busy day since April…and this is my first Tuesday night training in a long time as I’ve been too knackered to go… The rides to work and Oyama have helped with a bit of base and I felt strong and fit tonight. However, the guys are still training faster than race pace

Monday commute to work: 23.91km Monday commute to home: 28.99km Wednesday Pool day: 40 laps and 16 running. Thursday commute to work and Subway sandwich: 51.14km Saturday Commute to work: 92.39km + 1km A positive week. Wish they could all be like that.

I’m still legal. hematocrit (hct) – An expression of the percent of whole blood that is red blood cells. In a normal adult the hematocrit is 40 to 45% of the total blood volume, thus the normal hematocrit is 40 – 45%. But I’m not a normal adult! Annual update. 2007 47.7% 2008 50.0% 2009

Rode to work today. Left early, arrived early, cooled down at STARBUCKS, had a 20 minute light snooze. 2 weddings, then rode home. About 4 hours on the bike. Felt good. 93.86 +0.5km

After spending the morning with the dogs at the vet, and booking them in for a trim next week most of the day disappeared. Managed a nice 40+km cycle up to the Sekiyado castle and back down the other side of the river before the clouds started doing there thing. Absolutely peeing down outside right

I used to take my 2 boys to Wanagaya pool in Matsudo when they were little. I work near it once a week and don’t know why I never thought of stopping there each week to swim by myself. Yesterday I finally did so. I had packed a swimming bag a few weeks ago, with

Nice and slow this morning as I switched the pedals out to SPDs as my Speedplay right shoe is loose and the screws were too butchered for me to repair it this morning. Don’t like the feel of my MTB shoe for the SPD…feels a bit out of shape and small. OUT IN May rain