Cycling

Did the Edo, Sekiyado, Tone river triangle today. Was a nice windy ride. 20km TT warm up with a tail wind. A bottle of Gatorade at the castle, then a 30km heavy gear fat burning headwind down the Tone river then a nice cool down along the Tone canal back to the Edo river for

One week on the Paleo diet and I’m back in the winner’s circle. Completely different. Have dropped 2 or 3kgs. Have not had any dairy, processed food, sugar, and a few other things for a week now. I had some sugar withdrawal symptoms. Lots of blueberry, blackberry, raspberry & protein powder frozen smoothies…sometimes with almonds

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To the tune of U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday… Coming home from training this morning I met the dirtiest gaijin on bicycle I have ever met in my life. I was just starting out back home from training and had to get home in a hurry as well. Luckily, (I thought) just as I was about

Today I had a day off due to mid term tests at the high school. Morning cleaned the car. Noon to the driving range to hit 200+ balls. Afternoon and night I went to Aprico An Italian styled cafe for cyclists (and anybody else). Owned and operated by Mr Mukai a great rider in his

Last week I said… hold on to the 20km mark and you should be ok. I got dropped at the 19.94km?? point. This week I was even worse. I’Ll blame some dangerous riding by the newer younger guys who don’t slow down for cars or pedestrians because that’s where I let them fly away. I

Was cold and overcast with rain threatening. Sunday training had been prematurely cancelled…but Dave came to the rescue and got me out of the house. We met close to half way at the Tega Numa parking area and then made our way over the bridge, up the hill and into Espa for a chat over

13 riders made it to the start and NO RAIN!!! I said to myself at the 10km mark… ‘it gets tough between the 15km to 20km mark and then it gets easy till the last lap…so just hold on till the 20km mark…’ This kind of mental image training is sometimes programming yourself to fail…

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Night Solo Training Today: 49.59km 25.49km Yearly total: 1791.86km Daily average:? Daily average goal: 33.71 km