McEntyre of 野田市

Lance Armstrong Anna Hansen

It’s not about the bike it’s about the bonk. Just found out that Lance Armstrong is expecting his fourth child, and first with girlfriend Anna Hansen. Lance said he was “thrilled” to confirm the baby news, which has left the couple’s families feeling ”ecstatic and grateful.” “We are very much looking forward to what 2009 brings on […]

Tokyo Marathon Training #2

My hip is still a bit out of alignment from my fall a few weeks ago so took it easy. Went across the Noda bridge over to Saitama and did a lap around the golf course. My calf didn’t seize up like last time and was nice to see all the golfers and wild life. […]

Hakuba Creek House

This time last year we were up in Hakuba staying at my brother’s house. The snow had just started falling and for the next three days we were experiencing the heaviest snow storm to hit the area in over 20 years. Since then I’ve been up and stayed about 6 or 7 times taking the […]

Tuesday Night Training 2008 12 23

Seeing as Santa may get in our way tomorrow night we held our Noda Night Criterium training tonight. I didn’t wear my shoe covers so my feet are still feeling bad as I type this now. I got my shoes off and knew my toes were a little numb. Then in the shower mixing my […]

Fukushima Koji has retired

Shock! Horror! アラマ！ Words that could trigger Koji in my mind sometimes… postcards, attack or harmonica, but not retire. Especially as he is the ‘younger’ brother. I usually check Koji’s blog once or twice a month and the other day I clicked on his English blog to see that he has announced his retirement on […]

Tokyo Enduro 2008 12 14

Cold. Rain. Mud. Wet. I joined TCC’s B team for some end of year wheel spinning, mud sliding, rain dodging racing. We intended to do 30 minute runs but at the last moment, due to the wet and cold decided we only wanted to be out there once and therefore did 1 hour shifts. I […]

Wednesday Night Training 2008 12 10 +++

Last Friday I rode to work and on the way home got caught in a thunderstorm. After dodging 2 trucks and a woman who went around a corner in front of me without looking, I managed to slide off a steel grate in front of a 7/11 and attempt to break my thigh/hip, & shoulder […]

Wednesday Night Training 2008 12 03

Last night was cold as usual and I took the Fondriest for a spin with the Garmin. On my warm up lap I tried to set a mark (in the Garmin) for the sprint (110m) inside the tunnel and then another mark on the finish line. The problem with this though is the GPS signal […]

Winter Wear

I have a huge selection of summer wear but not much winter stuff.  Of my 2 pairs of winter gloves I can only find half a pair. The new gloves in the shops are almost twice the price of last year with good gloves running at over 8000 yen. The last couple of weeks I’ve […]

Gym

Had the day off today, (and tomorrow, and the next day, and most of the day after that too-) due to mid term tests. Before lunch I took Lunar and Sora for a walk and there were 3 crows in the park who wanted to play ‘chasings’ with us. That lasted more than 30 minutes. […]