Cycling

Great race! This short clip is about 100m from the finish where Cunego is just overtaking Basso for the win. What a great day! It was raining when I left this morning and the 2 guys who were coming with me didn’t show at the meeting point. (guys in my team). They were waiting near

Saiko Nikkan Sports Cycling Training Video This is my favorite race ever. Next November 9th will be my sixth attempt to WIN! So far I’ve managed a 3rd out of 5 attempts but the other attempts have been close to embarrassing. Here is a video clip I took of the course at just a bit

Did my usual castle ride. 20km each way. Lots of high school kids blocking the whole path on the way so came home on the opposite side. Japan Cup tomorrow. 43km in total.

I couldn’t go to training tonight due to rain so went to the gym instead. Seeing as I tentatively entered the Tokyo Marathon I’ve added a tiny bit of running to my regime. Tonight I warmed up on the running machine for 20 minutes before hitting the other machines. abdominal crunch machine 45kgs X 15

I turned up early as usual and did 2 laps before anybody else arrived and had a Zero Coke. Then there were 2 or 3 Apex riders who had also turned up and I started out at 9:00pm and did 2 laps with them at their usually very very fast pace. Most of them appear

Today there was a nice cool Northerly blowing which helped me get to the starting point but made the warm up back up the river a bit of a challenge. Today a lot of our faster riders went to Gunma for a 100km race. I therefore had a go in the fast group sprint from

Today’s recovery ride after a hard work week, Wednesday gym and Thursday night training with the Apex team I was a little burnt out. 20km to Sekiyado into a head wind. Trying to keep my cadence above 100rpm. After warming up was not too hard to go at about 110rpm. There were many cyclists at

Sekiyado Castle I almost ride here every Saturday morning or whenever I have time to do a 40km TT. It’s exactly 20km from my front door, straight up the Edo river to the end where the Tone river meets.

I survived. All I can say is it was HELL ON WHEELS! Woke up at 3.a.m. One glass of orange juice. Left at 4a.m. I started up the river and visibility was good; about 50 or 60m with lots of light bouncing off the clouds. Was in no hurry as it was a bit cold,

If I get all my work done by Wednesday morning and the weather is good, I plan on a long ride to Hakuba.  Will be a good test for my Garmin 705. First I need to buy a battery USB adaptor to make sure it won’t go flat when I’m lost in the mountains at midnight in the