Cycling

Over the last few days I didn’t think I was going to make it. Cold and wind and lack of motivation kept me off the bike more than was planned for and I stayed home yesterday psyching myself up for today. Even went to the extreme motivating tactic of shaving my legs last night to

Yesterday afternoon, once it had warmed up a little I headed out to get some kind of ride in. A bit of a South Easterly blowing helped me up the river but left me with few options on the way home and was very hard to head back. The Bridgestone Anchor team coming the opposite

For the Folds of Honor Foundation balls were sponsored….and… At 11:16, Nigel Mangan of Egan Golf (Ireland) hit ball 7,351 to break the world record for most balls hit in a 12 hour period. Piranha golf clubs of course!!! Big News!!! I’m sure a few Guinness’ have helped him celebrate this awesome achievement.

A few guys I train with have had a BG Fit and I have noticed a great improvement in their riding abilities. Especially with extra speed with seemingly little effort. I know my positioning is not great and possibly my bike sizes are not exact. The price for this is probably not cheap and would

Too lazy to make the most of the day off today and did practically nothing till night time sprint training. No long warm up like last week just a short one lapper then start. 3 starters and 3 late comers. After a bit of a nose bleed on the third lap I took it easy

Today’s mileage: 61.08km Yearly total: 778.13km Daily average: 31.1252km Daily average goal: 33.71km Nice and slow today…10 minutes slower than usual to work and quite slow on the way home till one guy passed me, then I went into a 10km pursuit time trial mode till he turned off. (gave up). Then slow again for

Final Stage 6: Stage Results: 1 Chris Sutton (Aus) Team Sky 2 Greg Henderson (NZl) Team Sky 3 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 4 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Team Katusha 5 Andre Greipel (Ger) HTC-Columbia 6 Allan Davis (Aus) Astana 7 Matthew Goss (Aus) HTC-Columbia 8 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Francaise Des Jeux 9 Gert Steegmans (Bel) RadioShack

Overall standings with one day to go: 1 Andre Greipel (Ger) HTC-Columbia 16:53:45 2 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 0:00:11 3 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Milram 0:00:17 4 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Katyusha 0:00:20 5 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:00:21 6 Greg Henderson (NZl) Team Sky 0:00:24 7 Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Katyusha 0:00:25

A nice slow ride to Watarase and some meandering on the way home to clock up just over 100km. Very windy around the lake, even too windy for the windsurfers who were all there wondering whether to go out or not. Maybe it was just too cold. Plenty of people fishing though. By the looks