Races

A story of determination. Allan has been in the TDU 11 times in a row. He had never won a stage there until this year and he won 3 of them this week. Enough time bonuses to keep my favorite Stuart O’Grady 25 seconds back in 2nd place. Lance Armstrong also using the race as

more photos here About 40 of our team went to Shimofusa Friendly Park this morning for a warm up for next week’s SEO Festival. First Heat. 32km then a 10 minute break. We kept a pace of just over 30kph riding two abreast and practiced peeling away rotations left side to the left, ride side

Had the day off today and first job was to reposition the outdoor dog pen. Dismantled in it half, cleared the ground, concrete blocks down, steel pipe flat rails to hold the floor and away I went. Trying to keep the dogs further away from the front of the house in the hope that it

Congratulations! You have been selected to run the Tokyo Marathon 2009. (1)Prize Money If I start training last year, lose about 40kgs of weight, come 1st, in a wheelchair, break the course record, world record, get the time bonuses,  and claim the 38,300,000 yen prize money, I may be able to pay a few bills.

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

Last time was 2006 when I did the 500m TT and 1000m TT. Today I did the same plus the 4000m scratch group race. Results: 500m TT 43.2 seconds….25th out of 38. 1000m TT 01.25.80…29th out of 53 which was exactly 1.38 seconds slower than what I did in 2006. Very disappointed. 4000m scratch race.

I have a Polar 720Si that I have been using for some years now. Check out the graphs of my Tuesday night training and the Hakuba hill climb. The graphs speak for themselves mostly and I use similar graphs of race data (races I’ve already done once) and simulate the same heart intensity on my

I was wet and cold and started my sprint about 300 to 400m too early. After escaping the bunch I ran out of gas about 50 to 100 m before the finish line and finished in the middle of this group 3.6 seconds away from 1st place. Stooopid me. All I had to do was

My results were fair. Race one. 2nd (personal best). A guy who broke away and won this race won 4 out of the 5 races for the day. I wasn’t going to catch him but I tried and I made ground on him. I made my big break away with about 600m to go and