McEntyre of 野田市

Rain!

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 […]

Yoruren October 21

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 […]

Asaren October 19th

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 […]

Saturday October 18th

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

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.

Noda to Hakuba (report)

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, […]

Noda to Hakuba

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 […]

Omiya Keirin ‘Try the Bank’

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. […]

Edo River Flooding!

Been a lot of rain lately and the river next to where we live (Edo river) has risen quite a lot. It usually gets this high about 3 times a year. I took my MTB for a spin on Friday to the other side from where we live and took a few pictures of the […]

Japan is a Clean country!

The sign says ‘Don’t Dump Garbage’. This is near where I train every Tuesday night and as funny as this is not!!! People often break rules just to show off their arrogance and stupidity. I can never understand how these people think or why they have to show off a bit of anarchy. Who are […]